Eduard Punset

Eduard Punset
Minister for Relations with the European Communities
In office 9 September 1980 – 27 February 1981
Prime Minister	Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by	Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Catalan Minister of Economy and Finance
In office 19 September 1978 – 8 May 1980
President	Josep Tarradellas
Preceded by	Joan Josep Folchi
Succeeded by	Ramón Trías
Member of the European Parliament for Spain
In office 6 July 1987 – 18 July 1994
Member of the Congress of Deputies for Barcelona
In office 28 October 1982 – 5 December 1983
Personal details
Born	(1936-11-09)9 November 1936 Barcelona, Spain
Died	22 May 2019(2019-05-22) (aged 82) Barcelona, Spain
Political party	PCE UCD CiU CDS Foro
Alma mater	University of London Complutense University of Madrid

Eduard Punset i Casals^[1] (Catalan: [əðuˈaɾt punˈsɛt]; 9 November 1936 – 22 May 2019) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, economist, and science popularizer.

He held a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's in Economic Sciences from the University of London. He was an economic writer for the BBC, economics director of the Latin American edition of the newsweekly The Economist, and an economist for the International Monetary Fund in the United States and Haiti. As a specialist on the impact of emerging technologies, Punset was a consultant to COTEC, Advising Professor of International Marketing at ESADE, president of the Instituto Tecnológico Bull, Professor of Innovation and Technology at the IE Business School (formerly Instituto de Empresa) in Madrid, President of ENHER, Deputy General Director of Economic and Financial Studies at the Banco Hispanoamericano, and Coordinator of the Strategic Plan for the Information Society of the Government of Catalonia.