{{short description|Wikipedia list article} The following is a list of notable people associated with the Pompeu Fabra University, including alumni and faculty members of the university.
UPF alumni include
Activists
edit- Mireia Boya Busquet (1979), scientist, activist, and politician
- Míriam Hatibi (1993), data analyst and activist
- Agostina Mileo (1987), Argentine environmentalist, science communicator, and writer
Artists and Architects
edit- Simon Penny (1955), Australian artist, theorist and curator
- Jordi Pericot i Canaleta (1931), plastic artist and designer
- Jaime Serra Palou (1964), artist and journalist, specialized in infographics and data visualization design
Architecture
edit- Josep Acebillo (1946), architect; winner of the Royal Gold Medal
- Alexander Pilis, architectural investigator
Photography
edit- Gloria Aura Bortolini (1982), Italian reporter, photographer and filmmaker
- Antonio Briceño (1966), professional photographer and has been a passionate activist in environmental issues, as well as in ethnic minorities and human rights
- Valeria Zalaquett (1971), Chilean photographer and portraitist who has worked mainly in contemporary and digital art
- Joan Fontcuberta (1955), conceptual artist whose best-known works examine the truthfulness of photography; winner of the David Octavius Hill Medal and Hasselblad Award
- Pedro Madueño (1961), photographer
Authors
edit- Rafael Argullol (1949), writer, philosopher, poet and professor of aesthetics; winner of the Premio Nadal
- Iolanda Batallé (1971), writer and editor
- Constantino Bértolo (1946), publisher and writer
- Javier Calvo (1973), writer; winner of the Premio Biblioteca Breve
- Edgar Cantero (1981), writer and cartoonist
- Jorge Carrión (1976), writer and cultural critic
- Teresa Colom i Pich (1973), Andorran author; considered one of the most important poets in Andorra
- Alicia Escardó (1963), Uruguayan writer, cultural manager, and multimedia e-learning content creator
- Berta García Faet (1988), poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic Literature
- Robert Juan-Cantavella (1976), writer
- Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1973), novelist; winner of the Premio Planeta de Novela, European Book Prize, Franz Kafka Prize and Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Valerie Miles (1963), publisher, writer, translator and the co–founder of Granta en español
- Mónica Ojeda (1988), Ecuadorian writer
- Francesc Serés (1972), Catalan language writer
- Jaume Subirana i Ortín (1963), writer, scholar, and blogger; dean of the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes
- Olga Xirinacs Díaz (1936), writer; awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi; only female Mestra en Gai Saber (Master in the Art of Poetry) after Mercè Rodoreda
Business and management
edit- Lourdes Casanova, academic, author and Senior Lecturer of Management
- Vinay Nair, serial entrepreneur and academic
Film and theatre
edit- Javier Beltrán (1983), film and theatre actor
- Gloria Aura Bortolini (1982), Italian reporter, photographer and filmmaker
- David Bonneville (1978), London-based filmmaker
- Meritxell Colell Aparicio (1983), director
- Lluís Galter (1983). film director and screenwriter
- Ingrid Guardiola (1980), film director, producer and cultural essayist
- Quim Gutiérrez (1981), actor; winner of a Goya Award
- Tatiana Huezo (1972), film director of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality, residing in Mexico; winner of the Ariel Award for Best Director
- Isaki Lacuesta (1975), film director; winner of a Golden Shell
- Oliver Laxe (1982), French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor; winner of the FIPRESCI Award
- Simona Levi (1966), theatre director, playwright, activist, technopolitical strategist
- Carlos Marqués-Marcet (1983), film director, screenwriter and film editor best known for his first fictional film 10,000 km; winner of a Goya Award, Biznaga de Oro and Gaudí Award
- Oriol Paulo (1975), screenwriter and director; winner of a Goya Award
- Nicole Vanden Broeck (1988), French-Mexican film director, writer, and producer
- Lydia Zimmermann (1966), actress, film director and editor, businesswoman, author, activist, cinematographer, and academic
Historians
edit- Joaquim Albareda (1957), professor of modern history
- Josep Fontana (1931-2018), historian
- Josep Maria Fradera (1952), professor of Contemporary History
- Antoni Malet (1950), historian of mathematics
- Ana Margarida Arruda (1955), Portuguese historian and archaeologist specialized in Phoenician-Punic archaeology
- Josep Termes (1936-2011), historian; awarded the Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes
- Enric Ucelay-Da Cal (1948), American historian specializing in contemporary history
Economic historians
edit- Jörg Baten (1965), German economic historian
- Jordi Nadal (1929-2020), economic historian; awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi
- Hans-Joachim Voth (1968), German economic historian
Journalism
edit- Carlos Alberto Scolari (1963), researcher and expert in communication and digital media, interfaces and communication ecology
- Núria Almiron (1967), specialized in communication and power relations
- Marcel Mauri (1977), journalist and historian; vice president and spokesman of Òmnium Cultural
- Montserrat Minobis i Puntonet (1942-2019), feminist journalist; awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi
- Sandra Sabatés (1979), journalist and TV presenter
- Vladimir de Semir (1948), journalist
- Mònica Terribas i Sala (1968), journalist and professor; director of Televisió de Catalunya
Law
edit- Meritxell Batet (1973), jurist and President of the Congress of Deputies; Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service
- Genís Boadella (1979), lawyer, politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
- Victor Comella Ferreres, professor and author of Law
- Joan Herrera i Torres (1971), lawyer and politician; leader of the leftist party Iniciativa per Catalunya
- Charles W. Mooney Jr. (1947), Professor of Law
- Josep Joan Moreso (1959), academic
- Carles Mundó (1976), lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice of Catalonia
- Miquel Roca (1940), lawyer and politician; one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain
Linguistics and literature
edit- Paz Battaner (1938), philologist and lexicographer
- Victoria Cirlot (1955), scholar of medieval culture and literature, philologist, translator and editor
- Teun A. van Dijk (1943), Dutch scholar in the fields of text linguistics, discourse analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
- Berta García Faet (1988), poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic Literature
- Martí Gasull i Roig (1969-2012), Catalan linguistic activist and a mountaineer; one of the founders of the Platform for the Catalan Language (Plataforma per la Llengua)
- Jaume Vallcorba Plana (1949-2014), philologist and publisher
Music
edit- Uri Giné (1986), musician, singer and songwriter; founder and lead singer of Bongo Botrako
- Sergi Jordà (1961), innovator, installation artist and digital musician
- Andrés Lewin-Richter Ossiander (1937), composer of electronic music
- Cristina Pato (1980), Galician bagpiper, pianist and composer; member of the Silk Road Ensemble
- Frederic Schindler (1980), French-Argentinean music supervisor
- Xavier Serra (1959), researcher in the field of sound and music computing
Other
edit- Gloria Pérez-Salmerón (1958), librarian; President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Josep Sucarrats (1975), writer specialized in gastronomy
Philosophy
edit- Jaume Casals (1958), Professor of Philosophy; rector of UPF
- Catia Faria (1980), Portuguese moral philosopher and activist for animal rights and feminism
- Hugo Omar Seleme (1968), Argentinean political philosopher
- Eugenio Trías Sagnier (1942-2013), philosopher
- Santiago Zabala (1975), philosopher; author of Hermeneutic Communism
Politicians
edit- Elisenda Alamany (1983), teacher and politician
- Elsa Artadi (1976), economist, academic and politician; member of the Parliament of Catalonia and Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesperson of Catalonia
- Meritxell Batet (1973), jurist and President of the Congress of Deputies; Minister for Territorial Policy and Civil Service
- Genís Boadella (1979), lawyer, politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
- Alfred Bosch (1961), academic, journalist, author, politician and Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia
- Mireia Boya Busquet (1979), scientist, activist, and politician
- Antoni Comín (1971), philosopher and Spanish politician; Counselor of Health of Catalonia
- Luis Garicano (1967), economist and politician; Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
- Joan Herrera i Torres (1971), lawyer and politician; leader of the leftist party Iniciativa per Catalunya
- Joan Margall (1975), politician; mayor of Torroella de Montgrí
- Andreu Mas-Colell (1944), expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists; his textbook on microeconomics is the most used graduate microeconomics textbook in the world; Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia; winner of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
- Sergi Miquel (1989), politician who serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
- Dolors Montserrat (1973), lawyer and politician; Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality of Spain; Third Vice President of the Congress
- Carles Mundó (1976), lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice of Catalonia
- Neus Munté (1970), politician; Vice President of Catalonia; Minister of Presidency; Government Spokesperson; Minister of Social Welfare and Family
- Núria Parlón (1974), politicians; mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet
- Marta Pascal (1983), politician; Senator of the Parliament of Catalonia; President of the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia
- Miquel Roca (1940), lawyer and politician; one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain
- Marta Rosique (1996), politician and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
- Marta Rovira (1977), politician and lawyer; Secretary-General of Republican Left of Catalonia
- Gabriel Rufián (1982), politician
- Roger Torrent (1979), politician and urban planner; 15th President of the Parliament of Catalonia
- Ramon Tremosa (1965), economist and politician; Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge
- Mireia Vehí (1985), sociologist and politician
International
edit- Sílvia Riva González (1979), Andorran politician and notary; Minister of Culture and Sports
- Mariana Zuvic (1974), Argentine politician; vice-president of the Civic Coalition ARI party
Sciences
edit- Nolasc Acarín Tusell, specialist in neurology and psychiatry
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates (1961), Chilean-Catalan computer scientist; awarded the J. W. Graham Medal
- Jordi Camí (1952), Professor of Pharmacology; Vicepresident of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation
- Felipe Cucker (1958), Uruguayan mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
- Gustavo Deco, Argentinian and Italian neuroscientist
- Robin M. Hogarth (1942), British-American psychologist and emeritus professor in the Department of Economics and Business
- Carles Lalueza-Fox (1965), biologist specialized in the study of ancient DNA; one the fifty investigators that collaborated with a study which demonstrated the presence of Neanderthal DNA in the Homo sapiens for the first time
- Núria López Bigas (1975), biologist and research professor with expertise in medical genetics, computational biology, and bioinformatics
- Angel Lozano, electrical engineer
- Josep Maria Ganyet (1965), computer engineer specialized in artificial intelligence
- Núria Sebastián Gallés, cognitive scientist known for her work on bilingual language development and the impact of bilingualism on cognition
- Michael Wolf (1967), econometric and applied statistician
Social sciences
edit- Rainer Bauböck (1953), Austrian sociologist, political scientist and migration researcher; winner of the European Latsis Prize
- Xavier Coller i Porta, sociologist and journalist
- Gøsta Esping-Andersen (1947), Danish sociologist whose primary focus has been on the welfare state and its place in capitalist economies; author of The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
- Vicenç Navarro (1937), sociologist and political scientist
- Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, sociologist
- Andrés Roemer (1963), writer, philanthropist, and an internationally recognized public intellectual who is passionate about critical thinking and human rights
- Maria Rosa Virós i Galtier (1935-2010), Professor of Political Sciences and Administration; first female Rector of a Catalan University
- Willem Saris (1943), Dutch sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Methodology
- Mireia Vehí (1985), sociologist and politician
Economics
edit- Rita Almeida (1974), Portuguese economist
- Oriol Amat (1957), Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting
- Mary Amiti, economist
- Pol Antràs (1975), economist
- Elsa Artadi (1976), economist, academic and politician; member of the Parliament of Catalonia and Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesperson of Catalonia
- Diego Comin, economist
- Fabián Estapé (1923-2012), economist
- Jordi Galí (1961), macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today; winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Award
- Luis Garicano (1967), economist and politician; Vice-President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
- Jeffrey E. Harris, economist and physician
- Adriana Kugler, Colombian-American economist
- Andreu Mas-Colell (1944), expert in microeconomics and one of the world's leading mathematical economists; his textbook on microeconomics is the most used graduate microeconomics textbook in the world; Minister of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia; winner of the King Juan Carlos Prize in Economics and BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards
- Albert Marcet (1960), economist, specialized in macroeconomics, time series, financial economics and economic dynamic theory
- Eleonora Patacchini, economist specializing in applied economics and applied statistics
- Albrecht Ritschl, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics
- Barbara Rossi, professor of economics
- Gilles Saint-Paul (1963), French economist
- Xavier Sala-i-Martin (1962), Spanish-born Catalan-American economist
- John Schmitt (1962), American economist
- Uwe Sunde (1973), German economist; winner of the Gossen Prize
- Ramon Tremosa (1965), economist and politician; Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge
- Reinhilde Veugelers, Belgian economist
- Xavier Vives (1955), economist regarded as one of the main figures in the field of industrial organization
- Fabrizio Zilibotti (1964), Italian economist; winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Award
Sports
edit- Tòn Cónsul (1998), pair skater; 2020 Spanish national champion
- Anna Corbella i Jordi (1976), sailor; first Catalan-Spanish sailor to finish the Barcelona World Race; awarded the Royal Order of Sports Merit
- Esther Morales Fernández (1985), swimmer
- Jessica Vall (1988), competitive swimmer and breaststroke specialist
References
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