About me

A little background on who is behind a blog is always appreciated, not only to give more confidence  to readers but to help them to better understand the opinions expressed in the blog.

My name is Lluís Juncà and I’m currently 27 years old. I’m a Telecommunication Engineer by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and I have worked for two consultant/audit firms. Despite this technical education my interests go way beyond it and mainly to politics, which is why I’m currently studying a Master on Political Science at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).

Politically, I’d like to see Catalonia become a sovereign state and a member of the EU, just as Ireland, Denmark or Spain. Economically, I think the classic separation between left and right is outdated as well as the confrontation between employers and employees.  To my mind, we must be able to forge a social and economic model that couples the best of the free market with the best of the welfare state, transcending trade-offs between dynamism and security, efficiency and equality as the Danes have done.

Besides Olot (my hometown) and Barcelona (where I’ve spend my last seven years) I’ve also lived ten months in Copenhagen (Denmark) where I worked on my Master Thesis at DTU’s COM-Center.

I’ve travelled around Europe, with special interest on those regions undergoing political conflicts and state-less nations such as Northern Ireland or Brittany. I’ve also been four weeks in India, following all the west coast from Mumbai to Trivandrum. This summer I’ll spend three weeks in the Caucasus, one of the main hot-spots in the euro-asian region,  travelling around Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.

I do hope that readers will find Cataloniablog.com interesting and worth a regular visit, and I encourage them to let me know whatever comments and suggestions they come up with (lluis@cataloniablog.com).