The President

He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a master's degree in Business Administration from the IESE School of Management and Business at the University of Navarra. He has also worked as an associate professor at the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and Institutional Relations.

In 1995 he began his public career as mayor of his native town, La Roca del Vallès, where he has always resided. Between 2005 and 2009, he assumed the General Directorate of Infrastructure Management of the Minister of Justice and Democratic Quality.

In 2010, after a brief stay in the private sector, he was appointed Director of Economic Management at Barcelona City Council. This passage through the Catalan capital led him to coordinate the Socialist Municipal Group in the Barcelona City Council between 2011 and 2016. In the consistory, he served as manager of Business, Culture and Innovation.

Salvador Illa was appointed Minister of Health of the Government of Spain in January 2020. She managed from the front line the most difficult moments of the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and promoted the vaccination process.

Candidate and winner of the Catalan elections in February 2021, he has been president of the Socialists and United for Advance Parliamentary Group, and leader of the opposition in the Parliament of Catalonia during this last legislature. In the elections of May 12, 2024, Salvador Illa was once again the head of the list of the Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSC), which won the elections again, with 42 deputies.

Since December 2021, Salvador Illa has been the first secretary of the PSC, a formation to which he joined in 1995.