Economist and geographer. He is a practitioner of local economic development since 1994, first as an independent consultant for local Administration and, since 2005, serving at the Barcelona Provincial Council, where he became Head of Economic Development Strategies (2012-2016). He currently is the General Coordinator of the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona. He also coordinates the Barcelona-UPF Chair on Local Economic Policies and is a lecturer at Centro Iberoamericano de Desarrollo Estratégico Urbano.