How we’re organised

The General Council is the general assembly and the Association’s highest governing body made up of more than 300 institutions, organisations and individuals closely linked to the metropolis of Barcelona. It is chaired by the person who holds the presidency of the Association.

Any person or entity that has an interest in the Associations’ aims or activities and wishes to become a member of the General Council may complete the application form and send it by e-mail to plaestrategic@pemb.cat.

The Governing Council is the governing, administrative and representative body of the entity.

This council is comprised by the highest representatives of the organisations that sponsor the Association, a representative of Aena (on behalf of its presidency), a deputy mayor of Barcelona appointed by the Barcelona City Council, the executive vice-president of the AMB, a representative of Diputació de Barcelona, a representative of the Baix Llobregat Regional Council, representatives of several town councils of the Association’s member municipalities, a representative of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the individual who holds the presidency of the Executive Committee.
 

President

• Jaume Collboni Cuadrado, President of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and Mayor of Barcelona

President of the Executive Committee

• Janet Sanz Cid, Vice-President for Climate Action and the Metropolitan Strategic Agenda of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Representatives of founding institutions

• Antonio Balmón Arévalo, Executive Vice-President of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona

• Laia Bonet Rull, First Deputy Mayor for Ecology, Urban Planning, Infrastructure, Mobility, Public Space and Housing of the Barcelona City Council

• Joan Guàrdia Olmos, rector of the University of Barcelona

• Jaume Guardiola Romojaro, President of the Cercle d’Economia

• Pere Navarro i Morera, special delegate of the State in Barcelona’s Zona Franca Consortium 

• Javier Pacheco Serradilla, Secretary General of the Comissió Obrera Nacional de Catalunya

• Pau Relat i Vidal, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fira de Barcelona

• Camil Ros i Duran, Secretary General of the Unió General de Treballadors de Catalunya

• José Alberto Carbonell Camallonga, president of the Port Authority of Barcelona

• Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of Foment del Treball Nacional

• Josep Santacreu i Bonjoch, President of the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation of Barcelona

• Eva Valenzuela Martí, Director of Aena - Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport

Metropolitan municipalities

• Gemma Badia Cequier, Mayor of Gavà

• Lourdes Borrell Moreno, Mayor of Sant Feliu de Llobregat

• Jordi Bou i Compte, Mayor of El Papiol

• Bartolomé Egea Sabaté, Mayor of Montcada i Reixac

• Mercè Esteve Pi, Mayor of Begues

• María Belén García Criado, Mayor of Sant Joan Despí

• Mireia González Sáez, Mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet

• David Quirós Brito, Mayor of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat

• Luis Tirado García, Mayor of Ripollet

Other institutions

• Marta Farrés Falgueras, First Vice-President of the Diputació de Barcelona

• Victor Puga López, Secretary for Territory, Urban Planning and the Urban Agenda of the Generalitat de Catalunya

• Fernando Vicente Benetti, Councillor of the Regional Council of Baix Llobregat

The meetings of the Governing Board are attended by the general coordinator of the PEMB, Oriol Estela Barnet.

The Executive Committee undertakes by delegation the functions required for the Association to operate properly. It also sends information and documentation to the Governing Council to enable it to take decisions.

President

• Janet Sanz Cid, Vice-President for Climate Action and the Metropolitan Strategic Agenda of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

Representatives from the founding economic and social institutions

• Aena - Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport. Eva Valenzuela Martí, director

• Barcelona City Council. Laia Bonet Rull, First Deputy Mayor for Ecology, Urban Planning, Infrastructure, Mobility, Public Space and Housing 

• Port Authority of Barcelona. Santiago García-Milán, Deputy Director General for Strategy and Business

• Barcelona Chamber of Commerce. Xavier Sunyer Déu, member of the Executive Committee

• Cercle d’Economia. Miquel Nadal Segala, General Manager

• Comissió Obrera Nacional de Catalunya. Liliana Reyes Hernández, Secretary for New Realities of Work, Territory and Migration

• The Barcelona Zona Franca Consortium. Ramón Xuclà Comas, acting secretary general

• Diputació de Barcelona. Eva Menor Cantador, President of the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Trade

• Fira de Barcelona. Constantí Serrallonga Tintoré, General Manager

• Foment del Treball Nacional. Salvador Guillermo Viñeta, Director of Economic and Fiscal Studies

• Unió General de Treballadors de Catalunya. Omar Minguillón Garcia, secretary of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona

• University of Barcelona. Xavier Testar Ymbert, Rector’s Delegate for Special Innovative Actions

Members appointed by the AMB

• Guillem Espriu Avendaño, Director of the Area of the Presidency of the AMB

• Iñigo García de Enterría, councillor of the Cerdanyola Town Council

• Raquel Gil Eiroá, Managing Director of Metropolitan Policy Analysis of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• María Assumpció Laïlla Jou, town councillor for the Nou Barris district of the Barcelona City Council

The meetings of the Executive Committee are also attended by the general coordinator of the PEMB, Oriol Estela Barnet.

Consultative body, complementary to the Association’s governing bodies. The territorial commission aims to incorporate the various local particularities into the tasks carried out by the PEMB.

This commission is chaired by the president of the AMB and the PEMB and is comprised by the:

• Barcelona City Council

• Begues Town Council

• Gavà Town Council

• Granollers City Council

• L’Hospitalet de Llobregat City Council

• Martorell City Council

• Mataró City Council

• Mollet del Vallès Town Council

• Montcada i Reixac Town Council

• El Papiol Town Council

• Ripollet Town Council

• Rubí Town Council

• Sabadell City Council

• Sant Feliu de Llobregat Town Council

• Sant Joan Despí Town Council

• Santa Coloma de Gramenet Town Council

• Terrassa City Council

• Vilafranca del Penedès Town Council*

• Vilanova i la Geltrú Town Council*

• Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• El Baix Llobregat County Council

• Diputació de Barcelona

 * The Vilafranca del Penedès Town Council and Vilanova i la Geltrú Town Council are members of the Territorial Commission representing the Penedès region.
 

This office is responsible for spearheading the process of drawing up metropolitan strategic plans or, where appropriate, for monitoring the current plan, staying in contact with partner institutions and building relations with other domestic and international institutions.

To achieve this, the Coordination Office has a Technical Secretariat, a Technical Office and a communications team that carries out all the tasks related to the mission and those that arise from fulfilling the other functions entrusted to it by statute.

The Coordination Office strives to become a model platform for collaboration between all types of organisations that want to contribute to the Metropolitan Commitment 2030 and to be a benchmark for metropolitan governance in Barcelona by building trust between all metropolitan stakeholders.

The core values of the PEMB Coordination Office are:

• The dedication to public service

• The collaborative spirit

• Socio-budgetary capacities

• Proactive and innovative attitude

• Respect and integration of diversity

• Transparency and clarity in action and management

The Coordination Office of the PEMB is entrusted with the following roles:

• Designing, facilitating and documenting the various phases of strategic planning processes.

• Promoting and participating in projects aligned with the implementation of the Association’s strategic plans.

• Communicating the development of various phases of strategic processes, the organisation’s achievements and the resulting projects.

• Managing the Association’s day-to-day activities.

• Promoting research on the Association’s challenges, policies and metropolitan governance.

• Acting as a lobby that seeks to improve metropolitan governance.

• Leading the roll-out of the Metropolitan Commitment 2030.

• Contributing to giving a metropolitan dimension or including projects promoted by players of the quintuple helix.

• Promoting strategic planning as a tool for improving governance.

• Experimenting with and innovating in methodologies and processes.

• Providing advice and methodological support in strategic planning to other entities.

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