Ferran Bel Accensi

Ferran Bel is an economist with extensive experience in business, public office and public administration.

Over twenty years, he combined executive responsibilities in local government with legislative duties in the Spanish Parliament, where he served as rapporteur on more than sixty bills. He was President of the Baix Ebre County Council from 2003 to 2007 and Mayor of Tortosa from 2007 to 2018. He represented Tarragona in the Senate during the 10th parliamentary term (2011–2015) and in the Congress of Deputies during the 11th, 12th and 14th parliamentary terms (2015–2023), serving as his parliamentary group’s spokesperson on the Economy, Finance, Industry, Infrastructure and Budget committees, among others.

In 1990, he founded a firm of lawyers and economists providing professional services to business ventures, where he continues to work as a consultant and corporate board member. He is also a partner and executive in several companies and a member of various professional bodies and associations.

He holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration and a postgraduate qualification in Regional and Local Government Finance and Management, both from the University of Barcelona. He also has extensive academic experience, having served as an associate lecturer in the University of Barcelona’s Department of Political Economy, Public Finance, and Financial and Tax Law from 1989 to 2005, and as an associate lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rovira i Virgili University since 1999.