Mateu Hernandez Maluquer Profile


General Information


Name:	Mateu Hernandez Maluquer
Company:	Barcelona Activa
Title:	Executive Director
Profile:	Mateu Hernandez Maluquer has been Executive Director of Barcelona Activa since September 2003. Until then he had been involved in the same organisation where he had the opportunity of participating directly in variousnew projects of the local development agency of the city of Barcelona. Collaborating with the rest of the management team of Barcelona Activa, he participated in the design of the Local Action Plans for Employment and Innovation of Barcelona and, as Assistant Director, and then as Executive Director, he has developed a number of the policies and programmes defined in the action plan. As Executive Director he co-ordinates the programmes for promoting entrepreneurship, business creation and consolidation, new employment opportunities, digital spread and innovation of the city of Barcelona. He has also been involved in the first Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Barcelona as the technical secretary of the Economic Promotion Commission. Mateu Hernandez studied law in the University of Barcelona and has a Masters Degree in Public and Social Policies from the Pompeu Fabra University and the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. In 2006 he participated in the German Marshall Fellow programme for the United States of America and participates as a lecturer on various Masters Degree courses on public policies and local development.