Ramon Tremosa

Ramon Tremosa i Balcells (Barcelona, 1965) holds a PhD in Economics and is a university professor. In May 2014 he was re-elected to the European Parliament where he is a member of the Economic and Monetary Affairs and International Trade committees and of the Delegations for Relations with the United States and with Israel. From 2009 to 2014 he served as a member of the European Parliament’s Economics and Transport Committees. Worth noting amongst his parliamentary activity is his role as rapporteur for the new supervisory regulations governing the financial market in Europe (2010) and reports on the European Central Bank (2011), Competition (2012), the Juncker Plan (2015) and the TTIP (2015). In the previous legislature, he participated in debates on the Mediterranean Corridor, the "European Single Railway Area" Directive and CAP reform.

He was a Professor of Economic Theory from 1992 to 2009 at Universitat de Barcelona. He has written numerous articles on monetary policy, regional economies and fiscal federalism and was awarded a six-year research grant in 2008. He has also published several books, including "L'espoli fiscal" (2004), "Catalunya serà logística o no serà" (2007), "Catalunya, país emergent" (2008) and "Catalonia, An Emerging Economy” (2010). His latest book is entitled “Let Catalonia Vote,” dedicated to the Catalan independence movement as seen from Europe (2015).