President of M & A FUSIONES Y ADQUISICIONES. He has a degree in Business Sciences from ESADE. Partner and founder in 1988 of M & A FUSIONES Y ADQUISICIONES. General Advisor in the Cercle d’Economia and promoter of the Promoción de Humanidades y Economía, publishing company of the Maleta de Portbou. Regular contributor to Crónica Global and the Periódico de Cataluña.
Executive President of the European Mediterranean Institute in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (IEMed) and president of the General Assembly of EuroMeSCo, a network of “think tanks” on Euro-Mediterranean studies. A career diplomat, he has a degree in Economic Sciences and Law from the UB and is licensed in International Studies. He has been General Consul of Spain in Berlin and Rome, and Spanish ambassador in Tunisia. In 1996 he was the first secretary in the Spanish Embassy to UNESCO. Since 2018, he has been Ambassador, permanent representative of Spain to the United Nations Office and the International Organizations based in Vienna. He has served as president of the Mediterranean Committee of the European League for Economic Cooperation (LECE) and vice president of the Spanish Section.
He is a Spanish historian and Honorary Professor of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the UAB (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). Professor of Contemporary History, he has published numerous works including El franquismo y la transición democrática, La historia en el 90, El último Cambó, Reportajes de Historia, among others. He was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2017 by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He is currently president of the Reial Acadèmia de les Bones Lletres de Barcelona.
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