José María Michavila Núñez (Madrid, Spain, 28 March 1960) is a lawyer, entrepreneur, professor and former Spanish politician for the People's Party (PP).

He was an MP in the Spanish Parliament from 1993 to 2009 and a member of the Government of Spain during the eight years that José María Aznar was Prime Minister (1996- 2004).

In 1987 he was awarded a doctorate summa cum laude in Administrative-Economic Law after presenting a thesis about the control exercised by the Bank of Spain over the financial system.

[2] During the time when he was General Secretary he contributed to create the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University[3] and the Summer Programs at El Escorial.

On 6 February 1993, in the People's Party's XI Congress and as a nomination of its president José María Aznar he was elected as secretary of Studies and Programs.

In its Preamble I it says “ The aim is to guarantee the functioning of the democratic system and the essential freedoms of citizens by preventing a political party from repeatedly and seriously undermining this democratic regime of freedoms, justifying racism and xenophobia or politically supporting violence and the activities of terrorist groups”.

On 3 September 2002 Michavila brought an action against the Basque party Batasuna that he called “the claim of democracy against terrorism”.

He then founded a new law firm (November 2009), MA Abogados,[14] which has offices in Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Salamanca, Vigo and Marbella.

[15] José María Michavila has also continued his professor activity being a part of the Postgraduate Degree[16] in Contemporary History in the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid.