María Jesús San Segundo Gómez de Cadiñanos (25 March 1958 – 17 December 2010), was a Spanish economist, academic, diplomat and politician, minister of Education and Science of Spain between 2004 and 2006.

She was a fellow of the Training Center of the Bank of Spain between 1982 and 1984 and a professor of economics at the Universities of the Basque Country and Carlos III of Madrid.

[2] In 2002 she was appointed member of the University Coordination Council, by the Congress of Deputies at the proposal of the PSOE, and in January 2004 she was appointed member of the advisory committee to the candidate for the Presidency of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, with the task of collaborating in the design of the model of the future socialist government, in its ethical code and in its priorities.

[6] María Jesús San Segundo was also vice president of the Education Economics Association (AEDE), member of the Executive Committee of the European Access Network and member of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Research in Lifelong Learning (UK).

He was a member of the Advisory Council of the Journal of Widening Participation and Spanish Public Finance.