Elisenda Paluzie i Hernández (born 13 October 1969) is a

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economist, politician, and professor from

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. Since 24 March 2018 she is president of the

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independence organization. She has served as Professor of Economics at the

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since 2001, is the director of the Centro de Análisis Económico y de las Políticas Sociales ("Center for Economic Analysis and Social Policy") there, which is integrated into the Research Institute of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team.

Early years and education

Elisenda Paluzie was born in

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on 13 October 1969. She is the daughter of Lluís Paluzie Mir, who comes from a family of Catalan intellectuals.''Inventari de documentació de la família Paluzíe'', archived September 23, 2015 in the Wayback Machine, at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, at Bnc.cat. She received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Barcelona (1992), a master's degree in international economics and economic development from

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(1996) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Barcelona (1999). She obtained a pre-doctoral scholarship from

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to train at the

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(1997-1998) as well as scholarships for postdoctoral stays at the London School of Economics (2000-2001), CERAS, and

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(2002-2003)."Informe IEB sobre federalismo fiscal '11". Institut d'Economia de Barcelona. Archived March 3, 2016. During her student years, she was the secretary of finance of the National Federation of Students of Catalonia (1989-1994).

Career

A promoter of the Sobirania i Progrés independence platform since 2006, she later joined the

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party (2008-2012), where she promoted the critical current, Independentist Left. On 24 March 2018 she was elected president of the Catalan National Assembly succeeding

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. In February 2009, she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona, a position she held until April 2017. In October 2014, she published the book, ''Podemos! Las claves de la viabilidad económica de la Cataluña independiente'' ("Podemos! The keys to the economic viability of independent Catalonia"), edited by Rosa de los Vientos. The work was awarded the XIV Catalonia Economy Prize, awarded by the Catalan Society of Economy, a subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies, in November 2015. In March 2022, she was elected Vice-President of the

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References

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