Jose Angel Gimenez was born in Zaragoza in 1945. Eldest son of a large family, he extended his studies at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and returning to Zaragoza in 1972 joined the University as a professor at the Institute of Education Sciences . In 1984 he joined a team of the City Council was intended to change the policy on children and social protection, and establish a new system of care. Jose Angel Gimenez, father of an adopted son, has worked in all areas of child care, and is a specialist in programs related to the Foster Care and Adoption to.