Facts:   - imagesize: 200px    - website: -lsb- website -rsb- http://www.gibraltar.gov.gi/office-of-the-chief-minister/minister-portfolios/2079-minister-for-health-and-environment-the-hon-dr-john-cortes john cortes at the government of gibraltar    - caption: dr. . john cortes , minister for health in gibraltar    - party: gibraltar socialist labour party -lrb- gslp -rrb-    - spouse: valerie    - office: government minister    - occupation: zoologist politician      - children: zoe and mark    - term start: 2011    - name: john emmanuel cortes    - nationality: british -lrb- gibraltarian -rrb-    - image: dr john cortes.jpg    - birth place: gibraltar    - alma mater: university of oxford   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john cortes .
`` this article is about the gibraltarian politician .for the american politician of the same name , see john cortes -lrb- florida politician -rrb- . ''the hon. dr. john emmanuel cortes , mbe , is an ecologist , zoologist , justice of the peace and gibraltarian mp , member of the gibraltar socialist labour party .he is married and has two children .