Minister of Foreign Action Institutional Relations and Transparency
Which position did Alfred Bosch hold from Nov 2018 to Mar 2020?
Alfred Bosch Alfred Bosch i Pascual ( born 17 April 1961 ) is a Catalan academic , journalist , author , politician and a former Minister of Foreign Action , Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia . He was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and a member of Barcelona City Council . Early life and family . Bosch was born on 17 April 1961 in Barcelona , Catalonia . He is the second of five siblings and grew up in the Esquerra de lEixample district of Barcelona . He later lived in Sant Antoni before settling in Ciutat Vella in the 1980s . He was educated at a British school near Barcelona where he was taught in English . Bosch joined the Autonomous University of Barcelona ( UAB ) in 1979 , graduating in 1984 with a degree in philosophy and letters . Career . In 1984 , after graduating from university , Bosch joined the Barcelona team bidding to host the 1992 Summer Olympics and from 1987 , after the city was chosen , he worked for Comitè Organitzador de les Olimpíades de Barcelona ( COOB92 ) , the organising committee . Afterwards he moved to South Africa to research his doctoral thesis and in 1994 he received a Ph.D . degree from the University of Barcelona after producing a thesis titled Nelson Mandela , lÚltim Home-Déu ( Nelson Mandela , the last Man-God ) . Bosch joined the UAB in 1995 as a professor of African history . He has taught at several other universities including Pompeu Fabra University , Autonomous University of Madrid , University of London , University of the Witwatersrand , University of Ibadan , Hood College and University of Chicago . Between 1984 and 1996 Bosch also travelled the world , working as a free lance journalist reporting on conflicts such as such as apartheid South Africa , Palestinian intifada , Lebanese Civil War , Nicaraguan Revolution , Sri Lankan Civil War and Yugoslav Wars . His work was published in Avui , Diario de Barcelona , El Periódico de Catalunya , El Temps , Catalunya Ràdio and others . Bosch has written several novels and essays . His 1997 essay La Via Africana won the Joan Fuster Prize for Essay . The novel LAtles Furtiu won the Sant Jordi prize in 1997 whilst Les Set Aromes del Món won the Ramon Llull Novel Award in 2004 . He has also won the Néstor Luján and Prudenci Bertrana prizes . Politics . In 2010 Bosch became spokesperson for Barcelona Decideix , the organisation behind the 2011 independence referendum in Barcelona . Bosch was one of the founding members of the secretariat of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana ( ANC ) in 2011 and he has served on the board of Òmnium Cultural . Bosch contested the 2011 general election as an independent Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes ( ERC–CatSí ) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies . He was spokesman for the ERC group in the congress . In 2013 , he was suspended from the Congress for addressing it English as part of a protest against an anti-corruption bill . Bosch contested the 2015 local elections as a Republican Left of Catalonia-Left Movement-Barcelona Open City-Advance-Catalonia Yes-Acord Municipal ( ERC-MES-BcnCO-AVANCEM-CatSí-AM ) electoral alliance candidate in Barcelona and was elected . In November 2018 he replaced Ernest Maragall as Catalonias Minister of Foreign Action , Institutional Relations and Transparency . He resigned on 9 March 2020 after his chief of staff was accused of harassment of department workers . Personal life . Bosch is divorced and has two children . He speaks Catalan , Spanish , English , French and Portuguese . He is an amateur opera singer and has taken part in various zarzuela and musicals . Published works . - Fulls Impermeables ( 1984 ) - Cronicàlia ( 1986 ) - Nelson Mandela , lÚltim Home-Déu ( 1995 , Curial ; ) - Herois dAzània ( 1996 ) - La Via Africana ( 1997 , E . Climent ; ) - LAtles Furtiu ( 1998 ) - Alia la Sublim ( 2000 ) - El Imperio Que Nunca Existió ( 2001 ) - LAvi ( 2001 ) - 1714 ( 2002 ) - Europa Sense Embuts ( 2002 ) - Les Set Aromes del Món ( 2004 ) - Heretaràs la Rambla ( 2005 ) - Catalans ( 2006 ) - Inquisitio ( 2006 ) - I Ara Què ? ( 2011 )