Estrella Durá Ferrandis

Estrella Durá Ferrandis (born 22 September 1963) is a Spanish Professor of Psychology at the University of Valencia and became a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 (9th legislature). She belongs to the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament and represents the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

She has been a researcher at the Polibienestar Research Institute at the University of Valencia since 2006 and in 2017 became a full professor at the University of Valencia in the Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatments.

As a visiting scientist she has collaborated with centres, institutes and universities in the USA, UK, Austria and the Netherlands. has earned her four times recognition by the National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity (sexenios).

Estrella Durá is an expert in social policy programmes with the main objective to increase the quality of life and social welfare of vulnerable groups. Some of the topics she has worked on include: unemployment in young people and people over 55, women and health, persons with functional diversity and persons with chronic illnesses, dependent elderly persons and migrants. with the latter continuing as Foreign Minister instead. She joined the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats political group and became a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL).

POLITICAL PARTY: MEP of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament representing the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spain)

COMMISSIONS: Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and Substitute of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)

DELEGATIONS: Member of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Africa Caribbean Pacific – European Union) and Substitute of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia (DASE) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)