Juan José Güemes

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Juan José Güemes (full name Juan José Güemes Barrios) is a Spanish politician, a former member of the Madrid Assembly from the People's Party who served as Minister of Health and Minister of Employment and Diversity for the Autonomous Community of Madrid.[http://www.efworld.org/programs/eisenhower_fellowships_current_international_fellowships.php "2011 MULTI NATION PROGRAM EISENHOWER FELLOWS: Juan José Güemes"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315175231/http://www.efworld.org/programs/eisenhower_fellowships_current_international_fellowships.php |date=15 March 2012 }}

During his term as Health Minister of the region of Madrid, Güemes opposed smoking bans as an infringement of individual liberty, saying, "you never get good results from banning something".[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Sanidad/madrilena/teme/ley/antitabaco/restrinja/libertad/elpepusoc/20100104elpepusoc_6/Tes?print=1 ELENA G. Sevillano, Elena G. "La Sanidad madrileña teme que la ley antitabaco restrinja la libertad: El consejero Güemes advierte de que 'las prohibiciones no suelen dar buen resultado'"] El País 4 January 2010

In 2010, he was appointed President of the International Center for Entrepreneurial Management at IE Business School.[http://www.ie.edu/IE/php/en/noticia_.php?id=438 "Juan José Güemes, new President of the International Center for Entrepreneurial Management at IE Business School" IE Business School press release]

In 2011 he was a Multi Nation Program Eisenhower Fellow.[http://www.efworld.org/programs/eisenhower_fellowships_current_international_fellowships.php 2011 MULTI NATION PROGRAM EISENHOWER FELLOWS: Juan José Güemes"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315175231/http://www.efworld.org/programs/eisenhower_fellowships_current_international_fellowships.php |date=15 March 2012 }}

In 2013, he is declared innocent after being charged for alleged bribery and malfeasance by management privatization of public hospitals in Madrid during his mandate at the Ministry of Health for the region of Madrid (2007–2010).[http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/11/04/5459089f268e3ea62f8b4587.html "Archivada la querella de AFEM contra Güemes, Lamela y otros ex altos cargos de Sanidad (in Spanish)" El Mundo]