Idoia Villanueva

Born in Pamplona on 17 July 1980,[1] she earned a degree in IT engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV); she later obtained a master's degree in Business Management at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

[2] She worked for ten years in the management and development of tech projects.

[3] She was proposed to the post of Senator by Podemos,[4] and, thus, she was designated as member of the Upper House in September 2015 by the Parliament of Navarre.

[5] She joined the Podemos' executive board (the "Coordination Council") in February 2017 replacing Ángela Ballester.

[6] In October 2018, she was announced as prospective party candidate for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain, and she was ultimately included in the fourth place of the Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa electoral list.[7][8][n.