Clara Ponsatí i Obiols

She was born in Barcelona in 1957, daughter of Josep Maria Ponsatí i Capdevila and Montserrat Obiols i Germà. After studying in the Faculty of Economics of the UB. In 1988 she got the terminal degree from the Department of Economcis, of the University of Minnesota, (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA), where she remained several years as a teacher.

Of liberal trend, Ponsatí is specialist in the Theory of Games and Public Economy, with interest in the negotiations, and the vote. Ponsatí was a lecturer in the Institute of Economic Analysis of the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and took its management from 2006 to 2012. She has been a visiting professor at the universities of Toronto, San Diego and Georgetown. The year 2013 the Spanish government exercised a veto against her, after she exposed her opinion about the independence of Catalonia in different mediae.

In fact, she complained that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport decided not to renew her position as visiting professor of the Prince of Asturias Chair at Georgetown University because of her favorable position on the right to decide, something that she considered a maneuver of "censorship" against her political opinions. Her views on the relations between Catalonia and Spain caused the Foreign Minister, José Manuel García-Margallo: "una cátedra en el extranjero no debe servir de base para alentar procesos secesionistas contrarios a la Constitución”, remarking: “mientras yo sea ministro no ocurrirá en ninguna embajada española”.

From January 2016 she was Director of the School of Economics and Finance at the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland), last responsibility before assuming in July 2017 the Ministry of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Since mid-2016 she has been a member of the national secretariat of the Catalan National Assembly. She is also a member of the Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica in the UAB.

• Multiple-issue bargaining and axiomatic solutions; Clara Ponsati; Joel Watson; Pub.: University of California, San Diego. Department of Economics;(Calif.)
• L'endemà; by Clara Ponsati & altri; Pub.: [Barcelona] Massa d'Or Produccions Coroporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals D.L. 2014
• Von Neumann i la teoria de jocs; Ponsatí, Clara; Pub.: 2010-03-11T09:25:00Z 2010-03-11T09:25:00Z 2010-02-24
• Mediation is necessary for efficient bargaining; Clara Ponsati Obiols; József Sákovics; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica; Pub.: Barcelona Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i d'Història Econòmica 1992.
• El Finançament de les comunitats autònomes : comparació internacional; Clara Ponsati Obiols; Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica.; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona- 1990.
• Search and Bargaining in Large Markets With Homogeneous Traders; Clara Ponsatí;Publication: Contributions in Theoretical Economics, v4 n1 (2004/2/9);Pub.: Walter de Gruyter eJournals
• La financiación de la Comunidades autónomas : comparación internacional; Clara Ponsati i Obiols; Publication: Revista de economia publica, 1991, 12, pp. 65–10