14 Facts About Daniel Filmus

Daniel Filmus formerly served as a National Senator for the City of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2013, and as Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the government of President Nestor Kirchner.

Daniel Filmus was briefly involved in the Communist youth wing as a teenager, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires.

Daniel Filmus became involved in Peronist politics as a student union activist, and helped establish an office of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights at UBA.

Daniel Filmus studied psychology and sociology at the university, and earned a degree in the latter in 1977.

Daniel Filmus became a secondary school teacher, working in Entre Rios and Chaco Provinces.

Daniel Filmus earned a specialization in adult education at CREFAL, a literacy promotion program in Mexico, and a master's degree in education at the Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro in 1989.

Daniel Filmus had a daughter in 1992 during his first long-term relationship, and another daughter in 2002 with his second partner, Marisa Factorovich, a psychoanalyst.

Daniel Filmus became a professor of sociology at UBA in 1985 and served as president of the UBA Sociology Alumni Association, writing several books on the subject.

Daniel Filmus served in the Citizen Power Council of Buenos Aires and as staff researcher in the Latin American School of Social Studies, whose Argentine chapter he headed between 1992 and 2000.

Daniel Filmus was appointed secretary of education of the City of Buenos Aires by Mayor Anibal Ibarra, who asked him to become his running mate for his successful 2003 bid for reelection.

Daniel Filmus served as staff researcher at the National Research Council from 1997, and as president of the UNESCO Debt-for-Education task force from 2006.

Daniel Filmus ran for mayor of Buenos Aires on the Kirchnerist Front for Victory ticket in 2007.

Daniel Filmus was elected Senator for Buenos Aires and took office in December 2007; he was named president of the Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development.

Daniel Filmus again ran as the Front for Victory candidate mayor of Buenos Aires in 2011, naming his rival in the primaries, Labor Minister Carlos Tomada, as his running mate.