Overview

• Catesco and the Fundació Jaume Bofill confirmed his death and hailed him as a visionary who advanced Catalonia’s presence abroad.
• Born in Barcelona in 1938, he came up through scouting and student activism before being jailed and tried by the Franco-era Tribunal de Orden Público in 1971 for clandestine propaganda.
• He served as the first director of the Fundació Jaume Bofill from 1969 to 1971, co-founded PSC-Reagrupament, and taught at the Institut de Teologia de Barcelona between 1973 and 1988.
• In 1984 he created the Centre Unesco de Catalunya, later Catesco, directing it until 2002 and embracing the role he described as a “diplomat without a state.”
• His international leadership included presiding over Pax Romana and Linguapax, close collaboration with Federico Mayor Zaragoza, and recognitions such as the Creu de Sant Jordi and Barcelona’s Medalla d’Honor, alongside books including Diplomàtic sense estat and Déus desconeguts.