| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Birth Place: | Valencia, Spain |
| Occupation: | Politician, university professor, philosopher of law |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
| Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Alma Mater: | University of Valencia Charles III University of Madrid |
| Birth Date: | 1968 10, df=y |
| Office: | Minister of Culture and Sports |
| Term Start: | 13 January 2020 |
| Term End: | 11 July 2021 |
| Successor: | Miquel Iceta |
| Primeminister: | Pedro Sánchez |
| Predecessor: | José Guirao |
| Office2: | Member of the Assembly of Madrid |
| Term Start2: | 11 June 2019 |
| Term End2: | 13 January 2020 |
| Office1: | Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid |
| Term Start1: | 25 June 2018 |
| Term End1: | April 2019 |
José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes (born 9 October 1968) is a Spanish philosopher of law and politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as Minister of Culture and Sport in the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez since 2020. He is also a member of the PSOE's federal executive board.
Rodríguez Uribes was a member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2019 to 2020. He served as Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid between 2018 and 2019.
Born in Valencia on 9 October 1968,[1] [2] Rodríguez Uribes earned a licentiate degree in law at the University of Valencia (UV); he later obtained a PhD in the same field at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M),[3] reading a dissertation in 1998 titled Los discursos democrático y liberal sobre la opinión pública (dos modelos, Rousseau y Constant) and supervised by Gregorio Peces Barba.
Rodríguez Uribes was appointed Director General in Support of the Victims of Terrorism in September 2006.[4] He held the post until December 2011,[5] [6] when Mariano Rajoy became prime minister.
Rodríguez Uribes has worked as tenured professor both at the UV and the UC3M.
Rodríguez Uribes joined the Federal Executive Board of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) led by Pedro Sánchez in June 2017, tasked in the area of Laicity.[7]
Following the investiture of Sánchez as prime minister in June 2018, Rodríguez Uribes was chosen to replace Concepción Dancausa at the helm of the Government Delegation in the Community of Madrid. His appointment was sanctioned through an 18 June royal decree,[8] [9] swearing in the post on 25 June.[10]
Rodríguez Uribes remained in office until April 2019 as he was included then in the 3rd place of the PSOE list for the 2019 Madrilenian regional election led by Ángel Gabilondo.[11] [12]
As an elected member of the 11th term of the regional legislature, Rodríguez Uribes became the attached spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group.[13]
Appointed Minister of Culture and Sport of the Sánchez II Government, Rodríguez Uribes assumed office on 13 January 2020.[14] [15]
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, Rodríguez Uribes led efforts to re-open the country's public life by announcing in May 2021 that a maximum of 5,000 spectators would be able to attend soccer games in regions with fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.[16]
Real Decreto 1007/2006, de 8 de septiembre, por el que se nombra Director General de Apoyo a Víctimas del Terrorismo a don José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 218. 12 September 2006. 32236. 0212-033X.
Real Decreto 469/2018, de 18 de junio, por el que se nombra Delegado del Gobierno en la Comunidad de Madrid a don José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 148, de 19 June 2018. 61871. 0212-033X.
Real Decreto 264/2019, de 12 de abril, por el que se dispone el cese de don José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes como Delegado del Gobierno en la Comunidad de Madrid. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 89. 13 April 2019. 39093. 0212-033X.