Ramon Tremosa
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Ramon Tremosa MEP |
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| Member of the European Parliament for Spain |
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Assumed office 14 July 2009 |
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30 June 1965 Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party |
 Spanish:Democratic Convergence of Catalonia  EU:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
| Occupation | Economist |
Ramon Tremosa i Balcells (Barcelona, 30 June 1965) is an economist and Catalan politician, professor at the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Barcelona, where he obtained his Doctorate about the influence of macroeconomic policy in the catalan manufacture industry (1983 - 1995). From 2009 onwards he has been independent MEP for Convergència i Unió and has been re-elected in 2014. He is author of various books and academic articles about monetary politics, fiscal federalism and regional economics.
Ramon Tremosa was born in Barcelona on the 30th of June in a family originally from Lleida (his father is from Arenys de Noguera, Ribagorça and his Mother from el Poal, Pla d´Urgell). Until the age of 15 he has lived in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona where he attended school at Don-Bosco. Later, he moved to the popular area of Gracia in Barcelona, where he finished school at La Salle.
One of his great passions is to read and write. He is very interested about culture and spends his few hours of free time in the Theatre or Cinema. Furthermore, he has studied five years piano and has sung in various choirs . For six years, he is an active member of Vivace Choir, at the "Cercle de Gràcia". Ramon also enjoys doing sport, especially swimming, where he his member of the "Club Natació Barcelona", but tries, whenever he can to escape to the mountains or the Ebro Delta to enjoy Nature. He is hugely interested in languages and cultures and is fluent in English and Italian and has studied German for three years, language always tries to keep practicing.
In 1992 he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Barcelona and combined his studies with work in the field of tax consultancy from 1987 onwards. Seven years later, in 1999, he completed his doctorate at the University of Barcelona, where he is lecturing since 1992. Ramón did his thesis in the Autonomous University of Barcelona about the influence of the monetary policy on the Catalan manufacturing industry (1983 - 1995). In 1999 he also completed a Master in Applied Economic Analysis at the University Pompeu Fabra. It is worth mentioning he was in 2006 one of the promoters of the vote against the Catalan Statute of Autonomy.
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