Àngels Martínez Castells
Àngels Martínez Castells | |
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Member of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
In office 26 October 2015 – 28 October 2017 | |
Parliamentary group | Catalunya Sí que es Pot |
Constituency | Barcelona |
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Nationality | Spanish |
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Àngels Martínez i Castells is an economist and Spanish politician. From 2015 to 2017 she represented Barcelona in the Parliament of Catalonia.
Life and career
[edit]Castells was born in Mollet del Vallès.[1] She attended the University of Barcelona, where she graduated with a doctorate in economics, having previously also studied commerce, philosophy, literature, and law.[2] Her thesis was directed by Fabián Estapé, in which she studied governance in Portugal following the Carnation Revolution.[2]
After her PhD, Castells became a professor of economic policy in the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of Barcelona.[1] In 1999 she became the first woman candidate of EUiA in the elections to the European Parliament representing the PCC in the IU-EUiA candidacy and in 2004 she was second in the ICV-EUiA candidacy led by Raul Romeva but was not elected.[3]
In 2000, Castells was the Vice President of the Pere Ardiaca Foundation.[4]
Castells was a founding member of the United and Alternative Left, a Catalonian political party.[1] She served for years as a member of the National Council of that party.[1]
Castells ran for European Parliament for the United and Alternative Left in 1999, and in 2004 she was again on the United and Alternative Left ticket, but she was not elected.[5]
In 2009, Castells co-founded, and then chaired, the public health platform Dempeus per la Salut Pública.[6] In 2013, she was elected to the Scientific Council of the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action.
In May 2015, Castells was ranked in the 32nd place on the party list of the Barcelona en Comú in the municipal elections.[7] In July 2015, she was elected in a primary election to hold the second position on the list of Podemos for the Catalonian parliamentary elections.[8] After the coalition Catalunya Sí que es Pot was formed, she was also highly placed on the resultant party list, and she was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia where she served until 2017.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Àngels M. Castells. "El hallazgo del concepto de género". nodo50 (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ a b Albano Dante Fachin Pozzi (May 2014). "Àngels Martínez Castells" (PDF). Cafè Ambllet. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ Liste, Ana González (2015-08-07). "Catalunya Sí que es Pot ficha a una activista de la sanidad pública". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
- ^ "la Fundació Pere Ardiaca" (in Spanish). Pere Ardiaca Foundation. January 1, 2000. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ Liste, Ana Gonzáles (August 7, 2015). "Catalunya Sí que es Pot ficha a una activista de la sanidad pública". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "La Prórroga de los Presupuestos "da largas" al combate contra la desigualdad, según Dempeus per la Salut Pública". Catalunya Press (in Spanish). February 12, 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "Lista completa" (in Spanish). Barcelona en Comú. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "La economista Àngels Martínez Castells será la segunda en la lista de Podem". El Periódico (in Spanish). July 14, 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ "Vídeo: una diputada de Podemos retira las banderas de España que colocó el PP". El Español (in Spanish). September 6, 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- Living people
- 21st-century Spanish women politicians
- 21st-century Spanish politicians
- Women politicians from Catalonia
- Members of the 11th Parliament of Catalonia
- Women economists
- Spanish women economists
- Spanish economists
- Economists from Catalonia
- University of Barcelona alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Barcelona