Mirian Marban González. Current position: Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba.
Date of birth: September 19, 1974. Place of birth: Nueva Gerona, Special Municipality Isla de la Juventud.
She began her primary studies at the Abel Santamaría Cuadrado Semi-Boarding School in September 1979, where she continued studying until completing 5th grade in 1985, at which time she moved to the Leonardo Luberta Noy Vocational Art School to begin guitar studies in the music specialty, also receiving general education classes. There she finished elementary school and completed middle school.
At age 14, she joined the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), participating in all activities called by these organizations and holding positions in her CDR in the areas where she has lived as an organizer, ideological activist, and since 2015 as President of the CDR where she lives, a responsibility she holds to this day. She has assumed, at different stages, tasks as part of commissions and electoral boards in elections of delegates and parliamentary deputies.
In September 1989, she began her pre-university studies, which she completed at schools in the countryside where she achieved positive academic results, also winning contests and teaching festivals. During this period, she served as Group Leader and in twelfth grade was elected President of the FEEM (Secondary and Pre-University Education Student Federation) at her school.
She joined the ranks of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) on April 4, 1992, and maintained her status as a member of the organization until November 2005 with a good record and positive results in her evaluations.
At the beginning of the 1992-1993 academic year, she entered the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Havana to study for a Bachelor's degree in History, obtaining good results in all courses. During her university years, she participated in extracurricular activities, both political and academic. She assumed the responsibility of Secretary of the Base Committee of the Union of Young Communists for her group. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History on July 16, 1997.
On September 1 of that same year, she began working at the then Municipal Museum Project of Isla de la Juventud to fulfill her social service. She was assigned the functions of Museum Specialist, a position in which the fundamental profile is research; she provided training on Cuban History and Historical Research Methodology. During that time, she participated in the First International Congress of Latin American and Caribbean Historians (ADHILAC) and served as a judge at the III Festival of Pineran Culture held in December 1997 and at the First Meeting of Museum Technicians.
In the UJC, she developed tasks as a political guide at the Base Committee of the Vocational Art School where she was a member, since there was no base organization at the Museum.
In September 1998, she went to work at the GEOCUBA Isla de la Juventud enterprise, where she held the positions of Advertising Copywriter, Commercial Manager, Production and Marketing Director, performing well and where she was elected Secretary General of the UJC Base Committee.
In January 2003, she moved to the Delegation of the Ministry of Audit and Control of Isla de la Juventud to work as an Assistant Government Auditor in the area of Citizen Services, a position from which she was assigned functions related to Government Control activity. In October 2004, she began occupying the position of Senior Government Auditor in the Special Audits activity. During this period, she was selected and began to assume tasks as a reserve cadre for the Delegate. Subsequently, in September 2005, she was promoted to the position of Sub-delegate and in December of the same year to Delegate, a position she held until January 2010. In this role, she completed the Territorial Defense course and later the refresher module.
During this stage at the Ministry of Audit and Control, she served for two years as Secretary General of the Union Section and was promoted to membership in the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), joining its ranks in August 2004, and maintained dual membership because she held the position of secretary of the UJC Base Committee until November 2005, when this status ceased, having assumed an administrative position.
She served as an Adjunct Professor at the Jesús Montané University Center, teaching Cuban Revolution History for three academic years.
Due to the requirements of her work related to auditing activities and her interest in self-improvement, she pursued a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance at the then Jesús Montané Oropesa University Center on Isla de la Juventud, which she completed in July 2009, obtaining the status of Best Graduate of the Workers' Course.
With the creation of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic in August 2009 and the adoption of the new structure, in January 2010 she was promoted to Provincial Vice-Comptroller in Havana City, a position she held until January 2013 when she was appointed Provincial Chief Comptroller of Havana. During this stage, she obtained positive results in evaluations as a cadre and completed a Diploma in Public Administration. She held this responsibility until October 2018, when she was promoted to the position of First Vice-Comptroller General of the Republic, which took effect on January 4, 2019.
From 2015 to 2019, she was a member of the Havana Provincial Party Committee. She was a delegate to the VII PCC Congress, where she was elected a Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, a status ratified at the VIII Congress.
She has been a member of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC) since 2003, has participated in scientific events, collaborated in training members of this organization, and participated as a delegate to its VII Congress.
During the Third Ordinary Session of the X Legislature of Parliament, on July 19, 2024, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, presented the proposal to the deputies for her election as Comptroller General of the Republic, the result of a natural process of cadre renewal.