Governing bodies

Engineer and expert in Smart Cities at Doxa Innova & Smart. Director General of Telecommunications (2006-2010) and Director General of the Information Society of the Government of Catalonia (2010). Smart City Director of the City Council of Barcelona (2012-2015).

Nurse. Expert on Person-centered integrated care and Self-care promotion. Promoter of programmes Patient Expert and Caregiver Expert Catalonia. Josep Trueta medal for health merit.

Doctor in Education. Tenured Lecturer of the Department of Applied Pedagogy of the School of the Sciences of Education of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Specialist in care to diversity. Member of the DO (Diversity and Orientation) Research Group.

Economist and IT expert. Lecturer and member of the Social Council of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Promoter of the Tecnocampus of Mataró and of the Fundació TIC Salut. Chairman and founder of Sinergia. Secretary for Telecommunications and the Information Society of the Government of Catalonia (2006). Director General of Microsoft in Catalonia (2014-2018).

Graduate in Economics, PhD in Sociology and Master in Political Analysis. Expert in governance and the strategic planning of cities and regions, having authored several books on the topic. He is the Director of Urban Quality Strategies, Chairman of the Fundació Ciudadanía y Buen Gobierno Coordinator of the AERYC (África-América-Europa de Regiones y Ciudades).

General Director of School of Public Administration of Catalonia. Previously, he was a lecturer in Law and Political Science Studies, and a researcher on the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute and the eLearn Center at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). Director of the Open Innovation project of the Jaume Bofill Foundation.

Social worker and expert in healthcare services, bioethics and human rights. Director of the User Attention Unit of an ICS hospital for 14 years. Since 2001 she has been Assistant to Management and Director of the ABD’s (Associació i Fundació Benestar i Desenvolupament) Social and Health Operating Unit.

Clinical and community psychologist, expert in community mental health and addictive behaviours. Co-director of the ATRA Group. Vice-Chairman of the Coordinadora de Comunitats Terapèutiques per a Drogodependents de Catalunya [Therapeutic Communities Coordinator for Drug-addicts of Catalonia].

Industrial Engineer from the UPC and MED from the IESE. With long-standing experience in managerial positions in industrial companies. Since 2004 he has been the Manager of the Fundació Família i Benestar Social, an organisation engaged mainly in the development and management of social housing.

Diploma in Teaching, Business Organization and Management, and Marketing. She is the General Director of the Catalan Down Syndrome Foundation (FCSD).

Graduate in Law and PhD in Pedagogy. Expert in social services legislation. He was a lecturer in social services at the University of Barcelona and the University of Girona and now works as a researcher at the ICOP-UAB. Member of the Municipal Council of Social Welfare of Barcelona, the Social Council of the Institut Guttmann and a trustee of the Fundación Pilares.

Expert in the environment, educational policies and R&D management. He has 30 years of professional experience in the area, in which he has held different positions and responsibilities. He is currently the Executive Secretary of the Associació Catalana d’Universitats Públiques [Catalan Association of Public Universities] (ACUP) and Director of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi). Web: josepmvilalta.com