José María Portillo Valdés

José María "Txema" Portillo Valdés (born on 1961 in Bilbao) is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country. He is an expert in Spanish constitutional history.

Biography Valdés was born in 1961. He earned a PhD in History from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), reading a dissertation in 1990 titled Monarquía y Gobierno Provincial. Poder y Constitución en las provincias exentas, 1760-1808 and supervised by . On 13 February 1998, he was one of the founders of the Foro Ermua. A lecturer at the UPV/EHU since 1988, he was subject to harassment and threats coming from ETA, as well as an attempted attack at the Vitoria Campus where he worked, wherein an incendiary artifact was put in his car in October 1999. He was appointed Chair in Contemporary History at the UPV/EHU in 2017.

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Decorations Medal of the Order of the Constitutional Merit (2003)