Joan Rosell Lastortras is the president of the Spanish employers confederation (CEOE). He replaced Gerardo Diaz Ferran in June 2011. Prior to being elected to this post he was the president of the Catalan national employers federation ( Foment del Treball Nacional) for 16 years. During his career he was president of the following companies; Congost, Enher, Fuerzas Eléctricas de Cataluña and OMB, Sistemas de Higiene Urbana.

Early life

After initially working as a journalist in

Diario de Barcelona The ''Diario de Barcelona'' (catalán: ''Diari de Barcelona'') (The Barcelona Journal) was a newspaper founded in 1792 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. With a few interruptions it was published in paper form until 1994, and in digital form until ...

and Telexpres he studied civil engineering and graduated from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña. He also studied Political science at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In 1980 he cofounded the political party Solidaritat Catalan and was candidate in the 1980 regional elections. In 1995 he became president of the Catalan employers federation. He is also memberof the FC Barcelona Foundation and a non-executive director of Criteria Caixa Corp. He has also written several books on employment and economic policy. He is married and has 3 children.

President of the CEOE

He was elected on 20 September 2010 obtaining 444 votes versus 247 for his competitor. The highlight of his presidency was the negotiation of the spanish labour market reforms in 2012 with the government of

Mariano Rajoy Mariano Rajoy Brey (; born 27 March 1955) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a vote of no confidence ousted his government. On 5 June 2018, he announced his resignation as People's Party lead ...

Honours

* Commendatore al Merito, Italian Republic * Silver medal of the Chambers of Commerce of Barcelona * Gold key of the City of Barcelona

References

(ES) Translated from the Spanish version 1957 births Living people People from Barcelona Spanish businesspeople {{spain-business-bio-stub