What was the name of the employer Laura Borràs work for from 2018 to 2019?
Laura Borràs Laura Borràs i Castanyer ( born 5 October 1970 ) is a Catalan philologist , academic and politician and the current President of the Parliament of Catalonia . Born in 1970 in Barcelona , Borràs studied Catalan philology at the University of Barcelona ( UB ) before becoming an academic . She taught at UB and the Open University of Catalonia . Between 2013 and 2018 she was director of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes . Borràs was a member of Parliament of Catalonia from January 2018 to May 2019 for the pro-independence Together for Catalonia electoral alliance . Between June 2018 and March 2019 she was the Minister of Culture of Catalonia . She was a member of the Congress of Deputies between May 2019 and March 2021 . Early life . Borràs was born on 5 October 1970 in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain . She received a degree in Catalan philology ( 1993 ) and a doctorate in Romance philology ( 1997 ) from the University of Barcelona ( UB ) . She received a European doctorate in 1997 and a special Ph.D . in 1998 . Career . Borràs joined UB in 1995 as an associate lecturer in the Department of Romance . She was a lecturer in the universitys Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from 1998 to 2013 . She was the universitys academic director of the masters degree in literature in the digital era . Borràs was also professor of humanities and philology studies at the Open University of Catalonia ( UOC ) from 1999 and 2007 and professor of languages and cultures from 2007 to 2009 . She was a visiting professor at Kingston University from 2010 to 2012 . Borràs is a member of the Electronic Literature Organizations International Literary Advisory Board , a member and lecturer of the European Studies Doctorate Program in Literary Interzones , Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate ( University of Bergamo ) and the Erasmus Intensive Program ( University of Paris 8 ) . She has been a jury member for the Sant Jordi Prize , the Ramon Llull Prize and the Catalan Letters Prize . Borràs was in charge of the 2012 centenary celebrations of Joan Sales i Vallès , Pere Calders and Avel·lí Artís-Gener ( Tísner ) organised by the Generalitat de Catalunya and City of Barcelona . She helped design the website celebrating the 2013 centenary of Salvador Espriu . She was also in charge of the celebration of Caterina Albert ( Víctor Català ) ( 2016 ) and Montserrat Abelló i Soler ( 2018 ) . Borràs was director of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes , an agency that promotes the work of Catalan authors , from January 2013 to January 2018 . Borràs contested the 2017 regional election as an independent Together for Catalonia ( JuntsxCat ) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia . At the election Catalan secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan Parliament . On 19 May 2018 newly elected President Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Lluís Puig , who was living in exile , was to be Minister of Culture . However , the Spanish government condemned the inclusion of jailed/exiled politicians in the government as provocative and refused to approve Torras appointments or to revoke direct rule . Faced with this opposition Torra announced a new government on 29 May 2018 without the jailed/exiled politicians . Borràs was to be Minister of Culture in the new government . She was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya . In March 2019 it was announced that Borràs would be stepping down as Minister of Culture in order to contest the general election . She contested the 2019 general election as a JxCat candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies . She is a member of the National Call for the Republic ( Crida Nacional per la República ) s political council . In November 2020 she ran in the primaries of Junts per Catalunya to run for the Presidency of the Generalitat in the future elections to the Parliament of Catalonia on February 14 , 2021 , in which she was elected . She was elected President of the Parliament of Catalonia on 12 March 2021 . Corruption allegations . Borràs , speaker of the Catalan parliament , is accused of fraudulently selecting a supplier for services worth €260,000 , as well as prevarication , administrative fraud , embezzlement of public funds , and falsifying documents . The charges , which Borràs has firmly denied , date back to the period between 2013 and 2018 when she was at the head of the Institute of Catalan Letters , a public body in charge of promoting Catalan literature . According to investigators , there are signs that Borràs could have fraudulently allocated public contracts to a friend and avoided a public tender by splitting the service into various ones that did not surpass the minimum threshold over which tenders are obligatory . Personal life . Borràs is married to doctor Xavier Botet and has a daughter , Marta . Published works . Borràs has written several books and articles on contemporary literature , theatre , cinema and literature , including : - Per què Llegir els Clàssics Avui , ( 2011 , Ara Llibres ; ) - Dos Amants com Nosaltres ( 2012 , Ara Llibres ; ) - Under Construction : Literatures Digitals i Aproximacions Teòriques ( 2012 , Edicions UIB ; ) ( ed. ) - Clàssics Moderns ( 2013 , Ara Llibres ; ) - La Literatura en un Tuit ( 2017 , Símbol Editors )