Jordi Hereu i Boher (; born 14 June 1965 in

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) is a politician, member of the PSC. He was the

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from 2006 to 2011. He is married, has two children and holds a

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from the

ESADE Business School ESADE Business School is a private college and graduate school located in Barcelona, Spain. It is part of ESADE (Catalan language, Catalan: ''Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses'', Spanish: ''Escuela Superior de Administración ...

. He studied marketing at the city's ESADE business school and was later involved in intermodal logistics activities for the

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of Barcelona in which the City Council is one of the major shareholders. He was successively appointed to managing the Districts of Sant Andreu, Les Corts and Gràcia at Barcelona City Council. Jordi Hereu became

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for

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and

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in 2003. On 30 August 2006 Hereu was designated as the future

, replacing

Joan Clos Joan Clos i Matheu, GCIH (; born 29 June 1949) is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was elected to a four-year term, and was the ...

after the latter was appointed as the Minister for Industry. Jordi Hereu took office on 7 September. Hereu formed a minority government with ICV after the May 2007 elections. In the 2011 elections he lost to

Xavier Trias Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera (; born in Barcelona on 5 August 1946) is a Spanish politician, member of the Catalan European Democratic Party and was Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. Among other responsibilities to the Governm ...

. In 2012 he left all his political responsibilities to focus on the private sector. He is co-founder of Fledge Barcelona and presides the business hub Barcelona Plataforma Empresarial and IdenCity. He is a founding signatory of the

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, which since 2018 made Barcelona the first city in the world with a science and technology diplomacy strategy."Barcelona serà la primera ciutat del món amb diplomàcia científica i tecnològica"
Retrieved 29/07/2020, in Catalan

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1949 births Living people Socialists' Party of Catalonia politicians Mayors of Barcelona City Council ESADE alumni {{Spain-mayor-stub