The auditorium of CASA SEAT in Barcelona will host on Monday, January 15, the first session of 2024 of the cycle The New Barcelona – Moments Estel·lars, which will continue for another year offering readers interesting conversations between two people who are references in one of the great areas in which the Catalan capital excels or in key topics that occupy the city's agenda.
To start the year, the cycle organized by The New Barcelona Post with the collaboration of CASA SEAT, Must Media Group and Barcelona Global has invited the president of the Port de Barcelona, Lluís Salvadó, and the secretary of Business and Competitiveness and CEO of ACCIÓ, Albert Castellanos, to talk about how innovation and internationalization have become cornerstones to boost the country's competitiveness on the global stage. The celebration of the America's Cup, of which the port is the host, will be the other big star topic of the day.
In a two-voice conversation with journalist and UPF-BSM professor Toni Aira, the session will take place on Monday, January 15 at 6:30 p.m. at CASA SEAT under the motto Innovation and internationalization, tools for the country's competitiveness. The meeting, which on this occasion is also sponsored by the Port de Barcelona, can later be recovered in podcast format on Spotify or watch the video on our Youtube channel. To attend as an audience and also be able to ask questions to the speakers, it is necessary to reserve a ticket in advance. To get a free ticket, click here.
This new session of Moments Estel·lars will offer a privileged vision of the strategies that are shaping the future of Catalonia in a world of constant transformation and maximum competitiveness. In this sense, both the Port de Barcelona and ACCIÓ are two magnificent watchtowers to learn first-hand about the health of the Catalan economy and business fabric, as well as the investment interest that the city arouses internationally, which has become a benchmark in multiple areas such as technology and life sciences.
Born in La Ràpita (Montsià) in 1969, Salvadó is an Industrial Engineer from the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona (UPC) and has a postgraduate degree in General Business Management from the UOC. He has presided over the Port of Barcelona since November 29, 2022 and, previously, had held management positions for 10 years in the private sector. He was a Deputy for Esquerra Republicana in the Parliament of Catalonia between 2012 and 2015, and between 2017 and 2022. In the field of Administration, he also served as Secretary of Finance of the Government of Catalonia during 2016 and 2017, a period during which he presided over the Agència Tributària de Catalunya, Fira 2000 and Loteries de Catalunya. Previously, he had been delegate of the Government in the Terres de l'Ebre and mayor of the City Council of La Ràpita.
For his part, Albert Castellanos Maduell, born in 1978, has a degree in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and a Master's in Public Economics from the University of York. Most of his professional career has been linked to public management, first within the university sphere at the University of Barcelona (UB), and then at the Generalitat de Catalunya, where he has always been linked to economic promotion areas. In this regard, in 2016 he was appointed general director of Economic Promotion, Competition and Regulation and, a year later, he assumed the secretariat of Finance of the Generalitat within the Department of Economy, of which he was appointed general secretary in 2018. With the constitution of the new Government, in 2021 he changed departments when he was appointed secretary of Business and Competitiveness of the Department of Business and Work, a position he currently holds and combines with his duties at the head of ACCIÓ, the Generalitat's agency for business competitiveness.
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