Liliana Beatriz Fellner (b. 28 February 1957) is an Argentine

Argentina

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 Justicialist Party

Justicialist Party

The Justicialist Party , or PJ, is a Peronist political party in Argentina, and the largest component of the Peronist movement.The party was led by Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, until his death on October 27, 2010. The current Argentine president, Cristina Fernández de...

 politician. She sits in the Argentine Senate

Argentine Senate

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 representing Jujuy Province

Jujuy Province

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 in the majority block of the Front for Victory

Front for Victory

The Front for Victory is a Peronist political party and electoral alliance in Argentina, although it is formally a faction of the Justicialist Party. Both the former President Néstor Kirchner and the current President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner belong to this party, located on the left-wing...

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Fellner received a diploma in biochemistry

Biochemistry

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 in 1982 from the National University of Tucumán and among other psotgraduate courses gained her Masters in Administration at the Instituto Populorum Progressio in San Salvador de Jujuy

San Salvador de Jujuy

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. She worked at the National University of Tucumán and the National University of Jujuy

National University of Jujuy

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 and at research institutes.

In 1999, Fellner was appointed Secretary of Culture and Tourism for the Province of Jujuy and led the successful bid to list the Quebrada de Humahuaca

Quebrada de Humahuaca

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 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site 2002-03. In 2003 she was elected as a national deputy

Argentine Chamber of Deputies

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 and in 2005 she was elected to the Argentine Senate for Jujuy.

Fellner's brother is Eduardo Fellner

Eduardo Fellner

Eduardo Alfredo Fellner is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and until 2007 governor of Jujuy Province....

, former governor of Jujuy and current President of the Chamber of Deputies.