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Raül Romeva i Rueda (born 12 March 1971 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, part of the European Greens and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. In the Catalonian parliamentary election of 2015 he will be leading the Pro-Independence electoral list.

• 1989: Graduate in economics, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)^[1][2]
• 2002: Doctorate in international relations, UAB

From October, 1995 to August 1996, Romeva was the principal aide of the UNESCO representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he was responsible for the Educational program and for promoting the UNESCO School of Peace Culture. He was also an observer for OSCE during the elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1996 and 1997.^[3]

Romeva has been an assistant professor of International Relations at the UAB (1994-1995 and 1996-2002), researcher on peace and disarmament at the UNESCO Center of Catalunya (1994-1998) and campaign coordinator for disarmament and armed conflict prevention for Intermón-Oxfam (1998-1999). He contributes frequently in the written press and on radio. He began his association with Iniciativa Catalunya Verds (ICV) in Caldes de Montbui (Vallès Oriental) 1989.

In 1994 and 1999 he was a candidate to the European Parliament for ICV, and in 2004 was elected as a Member of the European Parliament, and held the seat until 2014.^[4] During this period, he was considered the most active politician of the European Parliament Chamber and participated more than 1600 times, between questions and motions.[7]

Romeva is currently a research analyst on armed conflict and postwar rehabilitation at the School of Peace Culture at the UAB. He is also the representative for Omnium Cultural who is responsible for the Ara és l'hora campaign, organized by Òmnium and the Catalan National Assembly.

On July 15, 2015, it was announced that Romeva would head the pro-independence party list for Barcelona in the September 27, 2015 elections.^[5]

Romeva has written several books and articles, including:

• 1997 — Pau i seguretat a Europa: prevenció de conflictes armats a l'Europa de la postguerra freda (Centre UNESCO: 1997)
• 1999 — Bòsnia-Hercegovina: lliçons d'una guerra (Centre UNESCO: 1998)^[6] ISBN 9788489622609
• 2000 — Desarme y desarrollo: claves para armar conciencias[Disarmament and Development] (Intermón Oxfam: 2000) ISBN 9788489970724
• 2003 — Bosnia en paz: lecciones, retos y oportunidades de una posguerra contemporánea (Catarata: 2003) ISBN: 84-8319-158-X
• 2003 — Guerra, posguerra y paz: pautas para el análisis y la intervención en contextos posbélicos o postacuerdo [War, PostWar and Peace] (Icaria: 2003) ISBN 9788474266521
• 2012 — Sayonara Sushi (Novel/ Plaza & Janés / Rosa dels Vents 2012) ISBN 9788401388002

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)

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