Municipal government restructured and a new Deputy Mayor’s Office created
The Mayor, Jaume Collboni, has signed a decree restructuring the political make-up of the City Council, which will have five Deputy Mayor’s Offices instead of four. The new Deputy Mayor’s Office will be headed by Raquel Gil, until now the Councillor for Economic Promotion, and cover the areas of social services and economic promotion, work, feminism and democratic memory.
The political structure of the municipal administration is therefore as follows:
Mayor’s Office: The Mayor’s Office is directly responsible for the Councillor’s Offices for Culture and Creative Industries (Xavier Marcé), Sport (David Escudé) and the Commissioner’s Office for European Affairs (Mar Jiménez).
First Deputy Mayor’s Office (Laia Bonet): responsible for managing the areas of Urban Planning, Infrastructures, Climate Action, Urban Services, 2030 Agenda and the Neighbourhood Plan (Lluís Rabell).
Second Deputy Mayor’s Office (Maria Eugènia Gay): heading the areas for Presidency, International Relations; Participation and Democratic Innovation (Lluís Rabell); Health, Lifecycles, People with Disabilities and Strategy Against Loneliness (Marta Villanueva) and Education and Elderly People (Lluís Rabell). This Deputy Mayor’s Office is also responsible for Citizen Participation (Pedro Aguilera), the Commissioner’s Office for Policy on Children, Teenagers, Young People and LGBTI (Javi Rodríguez) and the Commissioner’s Office for Citizen Relations and Cultural and Religious Diversity (Sara Belbeida).
Third Deputy Mayor’s Office (Albert Batlle): responsible for the areas of Prevention, Security, Coexistence and Internal Affairs, plus the Commissioner for the Ciutat Vella Agreement (Ivan Pera), the Commissioner for Coexistence (Montserrat Surroca) and the Night Commissioner (Carme Zapata).
Fourth Deputy Mayor’s Office (Jordi Valls): responsible for Housing, Economy and Budgets, Tax and Tax Policy, Tourism, Digital Transition, Science Heritage and Knowledge. The Commissioner for Housing (Joan Ramon Riera) also now comes under this Deputy Mayor’s Office.
Fifth Deputy Mayor’s Office (Raquel Gil): responsible for the Area of Social Action, as well as Economic Promotion; Commerce, Restaurants and Markets; Business and Work; Equality and Feminism; Democratic Memory (Lluís Rabell). This Deputy Mayor’s Office is also now responsible for the Commissioner for Social Action (Sonia Fuertes) and the sphere of Economic Development is also boosted with a new commissioner, Nadia Quevedo.
Districts; current structure maintained.
Regarding Commissioner’s Offices, the Fifth Deputy Mayor’s Office now adds a new Commissioner for Economic Promotion, Nadia Quevedo. With a degree in Political Sciences and Administration, Quevedo has ample experience in the sphere of institutional relations and communication. From 2009 to 2011, she headed the cabinet for the First Deputy Mayor with Barcelona City Council. Since then, Quevedo has pursued her career in public and private companies alike, having worked for the Localret consortium, Equipo Singular and Barcelona Activa.
A Commissioner for Linguistic Policy is still to be named, which the Mayor’s Office will be responsible for, and a Commissioner for Renovation, under the Fourth Deputy Mayor’s Office.
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