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Management Committee

Apart from the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secretary, the members of the Management Committee are:

Oriol Bota i Arqué

Barcelona, 1969. Graduate in Business Administration and Management (Esade Business School) and financial auditor. Member of the Col•lectiu Ronda cooperative, where he undertakes assessment work for social economy organisations. He currently works as finance director of the culture cooperative group Cultura 03.

Oriol Cortacans i Calvera

Barcelona, 1969. Journalist. He has worked for more than ten years on the weekly El Temps, and has contributed to diverse magazines. He is co-founder and currently co-director of the Batabat television production company. He is also Chairman of the Ramon Barnils Journalists’ Group.

Joaquim Ferrandiz i Umbon

Barcelona, 1962. Graduate in Social and Organisational Psychology (Autonomous University of Barcelona, UAB). Linked to social research and market research, he is currently Director of Strategic Projects at Amber Marketing Research & Consulting.

Jaume Llansó i Torras

Barcelona, 1970. Social psychologist (UAB) and Masters Degree at ESADE. He has taken postgraduate courses in labour relations and Community social policy. He has a background in the scouting movement and was Secretary of the National Youth Council of Catalonia. He has been the spokesperson on different civic platforms and delegate at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre. He has been Head of International Relations of the UGT trade union in Catalonia and Director of the Municipal Institute for Economic Promotion of Mataró. He is currently Head of Projects of the Futur Foundation.

Ermen Llobet i Martí

Barcelona, 1956. Telecommunications engineer. Founding partner of Ecotècnia, S. Coop., a company dedicated to wind and solar power, founded in 1981. Member of the organisation’s Governing Council and current Assistant Director of Ecotècnia Solar. Member of the Energy Commission of the Science and Technology Plan of Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa (MCC).

Joan Marí i de la Fuente

Formentera, 1964. Journalist. He has been director of the weekly magazine El Temps, correspondent of El Periódico de Catalunya in Valencia and editor of politics in the Diari de Balears. He worked in the Studies Department of Televisió de Catalunya, where he is currently Head of Institutional Relations and Audience Services.

Pere Martí i Colom

Barcelona, 1967. Journalist. Currently Head of Communication of the Deputy President of Catalonia Office. He has been Assistant Head of the political section of the Avui newspaper. He worked on diverse programmes on Catalunya Ràdio and Ràdio 4 and was a columnist for diverse publications, such as the weekly El Temps and L'Independent de Gràcia. In the societal sphere, he was a committee member of Òmnium Cultural and a member of Associació Catalana de Professionals.

Joan Morales i Morera

Barcelona, 1967. Journalist. He has worked on the weekly El Temps and works on diverse publications from the regional press. He is currently Editor of the magazine Sàpiens and Chairman of the publishing services cooperative Critèria, which belongs to the Cultura 03 Group. Coordinator and co-author of the book Terra i Llibertat. 100 entitats dels Països Catalans (2000) and author of the book Caps de setmana gastronòmics (2002).

Xavier Serraïma i Petit

Barcelona, 1962. Publisher. He has been the director and owner of the recycling company Recuperacions Pergam. He has also worked as a freelance writer about information sciences and has been Editorial Director of MediaActive. He was the promoter of the publishing services company Òrbita. He currently heads the MonMedia Press company, and edits the magazines Temps de viure and CitySport.

Sergi Sol i Bros

Sant Pere de Ribes, 1970. Graduate in law at the UB and Doctorate in Urban Planning Law at the UPC. He has undertaken a Postgraduate course in Communication and Political Strategy at the UAB. He has worked as Head of Press and Communication of Sitges Town Council (1999-2003). He currently works on the Penedès weekly paper El 3 de vuit and contributes to diverse media outlets: Presència and Sàpiens, among others.

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is the sovereign body. It is made up of people, companies and organisations that meet every six months. It passes the annual accounts and appoints the Management Committee.

Management Committee

The Management Committee, which meets every two months, supervises and evaluates the work of the Permanent Commission and debates the questions of the day.

Permanent Commission

The Permanent Commission is the delegate body of the Management Committee. It has an executive role, meets weekly and is made up of the following: Chairman, Vice-chairman, Secretary, and Manager.

Àlex Gutiérrez i Margarit

Chairman

Barcelona, 1974. He is a journalist and has worked in recent years as editorial director in the Comunicació21 group, at the head of which he has promoted printed or digital titles such as the selfsame Comunicació21, Cultura21, Benzina, Línia Vallès and Línia Barcelona. He is a regular contributor to IcatFm, Com Ràdio, La Malla and Debat Nacional, as well as forming part of the board of Appec (Association of the Periodical press in Catalan).

Oriol Soler

Vice-chairman

Ripollet, 1969. Specialised in business management in the publishing sector. He has headed the periodical publications section of Edicions 62. He has been Divisional Director of instalment publications of Salvat Editores and Director of Sàpiens Publicacions. He is currently the Manager of the Grup Cultura 03.

Aleix Coll

Secretary

Diploma in Business Sciences (University of Barcelona, UB). He has worked in the Cultural Industries Department of the Barcelona Institute of Culture. He currently works as a risk analyst La Caixa savings bank.