Clara Ponsatí

Clara Ponsatí

Clara Ponsatí i Obiols (born 19 March 1957) is a Spanish economist and politician. She was appointed Minister of Education of the Government of Catalonia by President Carles Puigdemont on 14 July 2017, and was dismissed by the Spanish Government pursuant to Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution on 27 October 2017, due to the organisation of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the subsequent declaration of independence. On 30 October 2017, she went into exile in Brussels together with Carles Puigdemont and three other members of his government, Lluís Puig, Antoni Comín and Meritxell Serret. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clara Ponsatí has received more than 58,654 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Clara Ponsatí is the 336th most popular economist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 1,666th most popular biography from Spain (down from 324th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Spanish Economist.

Clara Ponsatí is most famous for being a former Catalan minister in the regional government of Catalonia. She was also a professor at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.