Alfred Bosch i Pascual was born on 17 April 1961 and is a Catalan academic, journalist, author, politician and a former Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia.
16 Facts About Alfred Bosch
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Alfred Bosch was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and a member of Barcelona City Council.
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Alfred Bosch is the second of five siblings and grew up in the Esquerra de l'Eixample district of Barcelona.
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Alfred Bosch later lived in Sant Antoni before settling in Ciutat Vella in the 1980s.
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Alfred Bosch was educated at a British school near Barcelona where he was taught in English.
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Alfred Bosch joined the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1979, graduating in 1984 with a degree in philosophy and letters.
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In 1984, after graduating from university, Alfred Bosch joined the Barcelona team bidding to host the 1992 Summer Olympics and from 1987, after the city was chosen, he worked for Comite Organitzador de les Olimpiades de Barcelona, the organising committee.
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Alfred Bosch joined the UAB in 1995 as a professor of African history.
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Between 1984 and 1996 Alfred Bosch 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.
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Alfred Bosch's work was published in Avui, Diario de Barcelona, El Periodico de Catalunya, El Temps, Catalunya Radio and others.
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In 2010 Alfred Bosch became spokesperson for Barcelona Decideix, the organisation behind the 2011 independence referendum in Barcelona.
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Alfred Bosch was one of the founding members of the secretariat of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana in 2011 and he has served on the board of Omnium Cultural.
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Alfred Bosch was spokesman for the ERC group in the congress.
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Alfred Bosch contested the 2015 local elections as a Republican Left of Catalonia-Left Movement-Barcelona Open City-Advance-Catalonia Yes-Acord Municipal electoral alliance candidate in Barcelona and was elected.
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Alfred Bosch resigned on 9 March 2020 after his chief of staff was accused of harassment of department workers.
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Alfred Bosch is an amateur opera singer and has taken part in various zarzuela and musicals.