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Eduard Punset i Casals (; 9 November 1936 – 22 May 2019) was a Spanish
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,
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,
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, and science popularizer. He held a degree in Law from the
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and a
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in Economic Sciences from the
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. He was an economic writer for the
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, economics director of the Latin American edition of the newsweekly ''
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'', and an economist for the
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in the
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and
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. As a specialist on the impact of emerging technologies, Punset was a consultant to COTEC, Advising Professor of International Marketing at
ESADE Esade (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) is a prestigious international private educational institution based in Barcelona, Spain. Esade runs two schools of the university, Esade Business School and Esade Law School, as well ...
, president of the Instituto Tecnológico Bull, Professor of Innovation and Technology at the
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(formerly Instituto de Empresa) in
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, President of ENHER, Deputy General Director of Economic and Financial Studies at the Banco Hispanoamericano, and Coordinator of the Strategic Plan for the Information Society of the
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Political career

Punset started his political career in the
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as Minister of Finance from 1978 to 1980, taking part in the implementation of the State of the Autonomies in
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. He was a member of
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's Union of the Democratic Centre, with which party he won a seat in the regional parliament in 1980 and in 1980-81 was appointed Minister for Relations with the
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in the
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from 1980 to 1981. He was elected to the
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in 1982 as an independent in the list of
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(Catalan nationalist coalition) for
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, Punset was elected to the
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as a member of Adolfo Suárez's Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) in 1987 and 1989. Punset quit CDS in 1991, following Suárez's resignment, but remained an EP member until 1994. As president of the
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's delegation to
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, he supervised part of the process of economic transformation undertaken in Eastern countries after the fall of the
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Author and professor

Punset was author of several books on economic analysis and social thought. He was also Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Faculty of Economics of the Chemical Institute of Sarrià (
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). Since 1996, he directed and presented ''Redes'' inked page in Spanish a science programme based around interviews with leading scientists, aired on the TVE. He was also the president of the audiovisual production compan
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inked page in Spanishand board member of Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts.


Personal

Punset was diagnosed with
lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ...
in November 2007, from which he recovered. Punset died on 22 May 2019 after succumbing to a lengthy illness aged 82. He was the father of politician Carolina Punset, writer and science popularizer and Nadia.


Awards

* "Honor Plaque" awarded by the Asociación Española de Científicos (Spanish Association of Scientists) (2001). * Airtel Prize for Journalism awarded by the Fundación Vodafone (2002). * "José Manuel Porquet" Prize for Digital Journalism (2006). * "Galardón de la Psicología" awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de la Región de Murcia (Official College of Psychologists, Murcia) (2007). * "Rei Jaume I" Prize for Journalism awarded by the Government of Valencia (2007). * Science and Technology Prize awarded by AEEPP, Asociación Española de Editoriales de Publicaciones Periódicas (Spanish Association of Publishers of Periodicals) (2008). * Manel Xifra i Boada Prize awarded by the Col·legi d'Enginyers Tècnics Industrials de Girona (Official College of Industrial Engineers, Girona) (2008). * "Asociación Profesional Española de Informadores de prensa, radio y televisión: APEI-Catalunya" (Spanish Association of Press, Television and Radio Reporters, Catalonia) Prize (2008). * "Hombre CQ del Año" Prize for the Best Writer (2008). * "Mención de honor" (Honorary Mention) by the Sociedad Española de Neurología (Spanish Neurology Society) (2008). * "Premios Zapping: Premio Humano" awarded by TVE (2009). *"10 Most Influential Ibero American Intellectuals" of the year – Foreign Policy magazine (2012).


Selected works

* ''El viaje a la felicidad: Las nuevas claves científicas'' (''The Journey to Happiness: New Scientific Clues'', 2005; English translation to be published in the United States in 2007 as ''The Happiness Trip: A Scientific Journey'') * ''Cara a cara con la vida, la mente y el universo'' (''Face to Face with Life, Mind, and the Universe'', 2004; English translation to be published in the United States in 2007 as ''Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time'') * ''Adaptarse a la marea. La selección natural en los negocios'' (''Adapting to the Tide: Natural Selection in Business'', 2004) * ''Manual para sobrevivir en el siglo XXI'' (''A 20th Century Survival Manual'', 2000) * ''Information Resources and Corporate Growth'' (coauthor, 1989) * ''La España impertinente'' (''Impertinent Spain'', 1986) * ''España: sociedad cerrada, sociedad abierta'' (''Spain: Closed Society, Open Society'', 1982) * ''La salida de la crisis'' (''The Way Out of the Crisis'', 1980)


References


External links


RTVE official Web page for ''Redes''

Eduardo Punset's blog
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Skeptical commentary on Redes
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