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FRANCESC CABANA I VANCELLS<br />

orn in 1934 in Barcelona, he holds a degree in Law and is a Member<br />

Bof the Bar Association of Barcelona. He has worked in the Barcelona<br />

Stock Exchange (1957-1959), in Banca Catalana (1959-1982), as a<br />

consultant on behalf of the World Bank for Third World Countries, in the financial<br />

sector (1984-1992), and as an associate professor of Universitat Internacional de<br />

Catalunya (UIC) (International University of Catalonia) for eight years (1997-2005).<br />

He has had many works published related to the Catalan economy such as<br />

La Banca a Catalunya (1965), Bancs i banquers a Catalunya (1972), Història del<br />

Banc de Barcelona, 1844-1920 (1978), Les multinacionals a Catalunya (1984),<br />

Banca Catalana. Diari personal (1988), Fàbriques i Empresaris. Els protagonistes<br />

de la Revolució Industrial a Catalunya (1991-1993), La Burgesia Catalana. Una<br />

aproximació històrica (1996), Caixes i Bancs de Catalunya (1996-2000), Episodis<br />

de la burgesia catalana (1998), 37 anys de franquisme a Catalunya (2000),<br />

25 anys de llibertat, autonomia i centralisme 1976-2000. Una visió econòmica<br />

(2002), Agrupació Mútua. 100 anys (2002) DAMM. Mestres cervesers des de<br />

1876 (2002), Madrid i el centralisme. Un fre a l’economia catalana (2003), Els<br />

anys de l’estraperlo (2005), Història del Col·legi d’Economistes de Catalunya<br />

(2005) and La saga dels cotoners catalans (2006), among others.<br />

He was coordinator and one of the authors of the book Història Econòmica<br />

de la Catalunya Contemporània (under the supervision of Dr. Jordi Nadal) and Cien<br />

empresarios catalanes (2006). He is a regular columnist for the newspaper AVUI.<br />

Some of the prizes he has won are:<br />

– The Estudis Prize in the 4 th edition of the Bonaplata de Patrimoni Cultural<br />

Prizes awarded by the Associació del Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica i<br />

d’Arqueologia Industrial de Catalunya (Association of the Museum of Science and<br />

Industrial Technique and Archaeology of Catalonia) for his work Fàbriques i<br />

Empresaris.<br />

– 1 st Prize in the Joan Sardà i Dexeus Awards, granted by the Economists’<br />

Association of Catalonia, for his work entitled Caixes i Bancs de Catalunya.<br />

– Creu de Sant Jordi (Saint Georg Cross) (1998).<br />

– Honorary Member of the Catalan Association of Journalists (2003).<br />

– Honorary Member of the Economists’ Association of Catalonia (2006).<br />

– Colegiado de honor del Col·legi d’Economistas de Catalunya (2006).

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