Member of the Board of Directors

Jordi Amat

Philologist and writer
PhD in Philology and Writer. He coordinates the cultural supplement Babelia of El País, where he is also a columnist and member of the editorial board. He directed the “Biblioteca del Catalanismo” series at RBA Publishing and the "El Món de Demà" think tank linked to La Vanguardia. His main area of study has been the political cultures that emerged during the Franco dictatorship and that shaped the institutionalization of democracy in Catalonia and Spain. He has received several awards for non-fiction literature. Biography is the genre he has practiced most frequently, analyzing the lives of figures such as Ramon Trias Fargas, Josep Maria Vilaseca Marcet, Josep Benet, and Gabriel Ferrater. His essay "El llarg procés" and the chronicle "La confabulació dels irresponsables" established him as one of the country’s leading political analysts. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Cercle d’Economia since 2019 and advised on the production of the documentary "El Cercle d’Economia, al costat bo de la història".
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  • C/ Provença, 298
  • 08008, Barcelona
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