Joan Saura

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Joan Saura
Minister of Home Affairs, Institutional Relations and Participation of the Generalitat de Catalunya
In office 29 November 2006 – 29 December 2010
Preceded by	Montserrat Tura and Joan Saura i Laporta
Succeeded by	Felip Puig (as Minister of Home Affairs) Joana Ortega (as Vice President and Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations)
Constituency	Province of Barcelona
Minister of Institutional Relations and Participation of the Generalitat de Catalunya
In office 17 December 2003 – 29 November 2006
Preceded by	Josep Maria Pelegrí i Aixut
Succeeded by	Himself As Minister of Home Affairs, Institutional Relations and Participation
Spanish Senator for Catalonia
In office 9 February 2011 – 26 October 2015
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia for the Province of Barcelona
In office 29 May 1988 – 5 October 2010
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 3 March 1996 – 14 March 2004
Personal details
Born	(1950-04-24) 24 April 1950 (age 74) Barcelona, Spain
Political party	Initiative for Catalonia Greens

Joan Saura i Laporta is a Spanish former politician in Catalonia for Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV).^[1] He was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1950. He studied at the Escola d'Enginyeria Tècnica (Technical Engineering School), where he specialized in Industrial Chemistry. In the beginning, he was devoted to the trade union and the neighbourhood: he enrolled into the Workers' Commissions (CCOO) in 1973, while he was working for the electrics company FECSA, and cofounded the La Florida Neighbourhood Association, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1974.