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{{short description|Argentine politician}}
{{use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Daniel Filmus
| image name = Daniel Filmus Ministro.jpg
| office = [[Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Argentina)|Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation]]
| term_start = 20 September 2021
| term_end = 10 December 2023
| president = [[Alberto Fernández]]
| predecessor = [[Roberto Salvarezza]]
| successor = ''Office abolished''
| office1 = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship|Secretary of Malvinas Affairs]]
| term_start1 = 27 December 2019
| term_end1 = 20 September 2021
| predecessor1 = Mateo Estreme {{small|(as Undersecretary)}}
| successor1 = [[Guillermo Carmona]]
| term_start2 = 6 January 2014
| term_end2 = 10 December 2015
| predecessor2 = Javier Esteban Figueroa {{small|(as General Director)}}
| successor2 = María Teresa Kralikas {{small|(as Undersecretary)}}
| office3 = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]]
| term_start3 = 10 December 2007
| term_end3 = 10 December 2013
| constituency3 = [[Buenos Aires|City of Buenos Aires]] 
| office4 = [[Ministry of Education (Argentina)|Minister of Education, Science and Technology]]
| president4 = [[Néstor Kirchner]]
| term_start4 = 25 May 2003
| term_end4 = 10 December 2007
| preceded4 = [[Graciela Giannettasio]]
| succeeded4 = [[Juan Carlos Tedesco]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|6|3}}
| birth_place = [[Buenos Aires]], Argentina
| death_date=
| death_place=
| spouse=
| party= [[Justicialist Party]]
| otherparty = [[Front for Victory]] {{small|(2003–2017)}}<br />[[Citizen's Unity]] {{small|(2017–2019)}}<br />[[Frente de Todos (2019 coalition)|Frente de Todos]] {{small|(2019–present)}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Buenos Aires]]
| profession = Sociologist
| website=[http://www.danielfilmus.com.ar/ www.danielfilmus.com.ar]
}}
'''Daniel Fernando Filmus''' ({{IPA|es|daˈnjel feɾˈnando ˈfilmus}}; born June 3, 1955) is an [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[politics|politician]] and academic, who served as the country's [[Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Argentina)|Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation]], from 2021 to 2023.

Filmus formerly served as a [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] for the [[Buenos Aires|City of Buenos Aires]] from 2007 to 2013, and as [[Ministry of Education (Argentina)|Minister of Education, Science and Technology]] in the government of [[President of Argentina|President]] [[Néstor Kirchner]]. From 2014 to 2015, and later from 2019 to 2021, he was Secretary of Affairs pertaining to the [[Falkland Islands|Malvinas]] (Falkland Islands).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.mercopress.com/2019/12/30/filmus-officially-appointed-as-malvinas-antarctica-and-south-atlantic-secretary|work=MercoPress|title=Filmus officially appointed as Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Secretary|date=30 December 2019|access-date=12 December 2020|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/07/falkland-islands-argentina-malvinas-secretary|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=Falkland islands: Argentina appoints Malvinas secretary|last=Watts|first=Jonathan|date=7 January 2014|access-date=12 December 2020}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
Born in [[La Paternal]], [[Buenos Aires]], to María Cecilia Cwik and Salomón Filmus,<ref name=clarin>{{cite web|url=http://edant.clarin.com/diario/2007/06/24/elpais/p-00615.htm|title=Macri, Filmus: la historia de dos vidas cruzadas|work=Clarín| date=24 June 2007 }}</ref> his mother was an [[English language]] teacher of [[Polish Argentine|Polish]] descent, and his father a [[Argentine Jew|Jewish]] immigrant from [[Bessarabia]] (now [[Moldova]]) who arrived in Argentina in 1928 and became a shopkeeper.<ref name=ln>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1386006-filmus|title=Filmus: Defiendo la educación pública aunque no la necesite|work=La Nación|date=24 April 2018|access-date=20 May 2012|archive-date=24 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324181912/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1386006-filmus|url-status=dead}}</ref> Daniel Filmus was briefly involved in the [[Communist]] youth wing as a teenager, and enrolled at the [[University of Buenos Aires]] (UBA). He became involved in [[Peronist]] politics as a [[Students' union|student union]] activist, and helped establish an office of the [[Permanent Assembly for Human Rights]] at UBA. He studied [[psychology]] and [[sociology]] at the university, and earned a degree in the latter in 1977.<ref name=clarin/> Filmus became a [[secondary school]] teacher, working in [[Entre Ríos Province|Entre Ríos]] and [[Chaco Province]]s.<ref name=filmus>{{cite web |url=http://senadorfilmus.com.ar/2011/acerca-de-mi/ |title=Acerca de mí |publisher=Daniel Filmus |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528200856/http://senadorfilmus.com.ar/2011/acerca-de-mi/ |archivedate=2012-05-28 }}</ref> He 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.<ref name=cv>{{cite web|url=http://www.danielfilmus.com.ar/documentos/CV |title=Antecedentes Profesionales |publisher=Daniel Filmus }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Filmus never married. He had a daughter in 1992 during his first long-term relationship, and another daughter in 2002 with his second partner, Marisa Factorovich, a psychoanalyst.<ref name=ln/><ref name=clarin/>

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. He served in the Citizen Power Council of Buenos Aires and as staff researcher in the [[Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales|Latin American School of Social Studies]] (FLACSO), whose Argentine chapter he headed between 1992 and 2000.<ref name=conoce>{{cite web |url=http://www.danielfilmus.com.ar/notas.php?mon=855&id=805 |title=Conocé a Daniel Filmus |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925100511/http://www.danielfilmus.com.ar/notas.php?mon=855&id=805 |archivedate=2008-09-25 }}</ref>

==Political career==
Filmus was appointed secretary of education of the City of Buenos Aires by Mayor [[Aníbal Ibarra]], who asked him to become his running mate for his successful 2003 bid for reelection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clarin.com/diario/2003/04/17/um/m-546919.htm|title=Daniel Filmus será el compañero de fórmula de Aníbal Ibarra|work=Clarín|date=17 April 2003|access-date=12 July 2006|archive-date=10 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310181932/http://www.clarin.com/diario/2003/04/17/um/m-546919.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Newly inaugurated president [[Néstor Kirchner]] appointed Filmus Minister of Education before the mayoral race began, however.<ref name=filmus/> Filmus also served as staff researcher at the [[CONICET|National Research Council]] from 1997, and as president of the [[UNESCO]] Debt-for-Education task force from 2006.<ref name=cv/>

Filmus ran for [[mayor of Buenos Aires]] on the [[Kirchnerism|Kirchnerist]] [[Front for Victory]] ticket in [[2007 Buenos Aires City elections|2007]]. He came in second in the first round, and was defeated by [[Republican Proposal]] candidate [[Mauricio Macri]] by nearly 22% in the [[Two-round system|runoff]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://towsa.com/andy/totalpais/capital/2007g.html|title=Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Jefe de Gobierno y Vice (2007)|publisher=Atlas Electoral de Andy Tow|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127114210/http://towsa.com/andy/totalpais/capital/2007g.html|archivedate=2012-01-27}}</ref> He was, however, elected [[Argentine Senate|Senator]] for Buenos Aires and took office in December 2007; he was named president of the Committee on the [[Environment (biophysical)|Environment]] and [[Sustainable Development]].<ref name=cv/>

He again ran as the Front for Victory candidate [[mayor of Buenos Aires]] in [[2011 Buenos Aires City elections|2011]], naming his rival in the primaries, Labor Minister [[Carlos Tomada]], as his [[running mate]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-168586-2011-05-21.html|title=Filmus llevará la camiseta K en la Capital|work=Página 12}}</ref> The results were largely a replay of the 2007 election, however, with a second place showing in the first round and Macri's eventual reelection in the runoff by a margin of over 28%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://towsa.com/andy/totalpais/capital/2011g.html|title=Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Jefe de Gobierno y Vice (2011)|publisher=Atlas Electoral de Andy Tow|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501024042/http://towsa.com/andy/totalpais/capital/2011g.html|archivedate=2012-05-01}}</ref>

In 2021, he was appointed as [[Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Argentina)|Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation]] in replacement of [[Roberto Salvarezza]], as part of a cabinet reshuffle following the government's poor showings in the [[2021 Argentine legislative election|2021 legislative primary elections]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pagina12.com.ar/369164-quien-es-daniel-filmus-el-nuevo-ministro-de-ciencia-y-tecnol|work=[[Página/12]]|title=Quién es Daniel Filmus, el nuevo ministro de Ciencia y Tecnología|date=17 September 2021|access-date=19 September 2021|language=es}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/02/19/sociedad/s-01144327.htm Daniel Filmus y Adriana Puiggrós: ¿A dónde va la educación?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416054806/http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/02/19/sociedad/s-01144327.htm |date=16 April 2009 }} Interview, ''[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]'', 19 February 2006
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120510194646/http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=375&iOrden=0&iSen=ASC Senate profile]
*[http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/10786890/Daniel-filmus---no-olvidar-quien-fue-es-y-no-hizo.html Daniel Filmus]

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