Ernest Urtasun

Ernest Urtasun i Domènech (born 27 January 1982) is a Spanish ecosocialist politician and economist. He serves as Member of the European Parliament since 2014, integrated within the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) political group. Biography Born on 27 January 1982 in Barcelona, Urtasun joined , the youth wing of Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV), when he was 15 years old. He earned a licentiate degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), followed by a postgraduate degree in international relations from the University of Barcelona (UB). He ran 6th in the Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left–Entesa pel Progrés Municipal (ICV–EUiA–EPM) list for the 2003 Barcelona municipal election and the 2007 municipal election. He also ran as candidate to the European Parliament (EP) for the 2004 European Parliament election in Spain, 28th in the United Left–Initiative for Catalonia Greens–United and Alternative Left (IU–ICV–EUiA) list. Between 2004 and 2008 Urtasun worked as adviser for MEP Raül Romeva. Later, he began working as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and in 2011 became director of the general secretariat of the international organization Union for the Mediterranean. Since 2012, he has been member of the trade union Comisiones Obreras.