Miriam González Durántez

As of 2021, González Durántez lives in California.

González published the book Devuélveme el Poder on Spanish politics in October 2019. She also published the cookbook, Made In Spain: Recipes and stories from my country and beyond in 2016.

González is the chair and founder of international charity, Inspiring Girls. Active globally in 14 countries, the charity aims to raise the aspirations of young girls by connecting them with female role models. The Inspiring Girls Video Hub is due for launch in Autumn 2019.

González Durántez is vice chair of UBS Europe. Until 2018, she was member of Board and chair of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of UBS UK (UBSL). She was also on the Board of Directors of Acciona, S.A. between June 2010 and July 2014.

González Durántez spoke of her relationship with the United Kingdom in a 2014 interview stating that after living in the country she:

Since October 2013 González Durántez was the honorary president of Canning House in London, the home of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Council.

When Sarah Brown and Samantha Cameron became increasingly involved in the media and 2010 UK general election campaigns, González Durántez publicly said that she would be willing to help with the campaign but, unlike Cameron, she would be unable to take time off from work and her family life to take part. Asked by a Spanish newspaper whether she would quit her job, González Durántez said that "If Nick were Prime Minister and I had to give up my job to support the country, I would have no problem in doing so."

González Durántez dated the British politician Nick Clegg for several years in Brussels before they married in 2000. The couple have three sons. She insisted on giving their children Spanish names if they were to have the family name "Clegg". She is a practising Roman Catholic, and the couple agreed that their children will be raised as such, though her husband is agnostic. She has not taken British citizenship and so, as an EU citizen who is not a Commonwealth or Irish citizen, she can vote in local and European elections; but not at UK general elections.

Miriam González Durántez was born to two teachers in Olmedo, in the Spanish province of Valladolid. Her father, José Antonio González Caviedes, was also Mayor of Olmedo and served as a senator for Valladolid for the conservative People's Party (PP) from 1989 until his death in 1996. She studied law at the University of Valladolid and then won a postgraduate scholarship to the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. She met Nick Clegg in Bruges, and continued to work in Brussels.

Miriam González Durántez, Lady Clegg (born 31 May 1968) is a Spanish international trade lawyer, vice chair of UBS Europe and founder of Inspiring Girls. She is the wife of Nick Clegg, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015.