Josep Maria Terricabras

Function	EFA President and first Vice President of the Greens/EFA Group
Phone Brussels	+32-2-28-45748
Phone Strasbourg	+33-3-881-75748
E-Mail	josep-maria.terricabras@ep.europa.eu
Office	Brussels European Parliament Rue Wiertz B- 1047 Brussels Strasbourg European Parliament LOW T05059 Allée du Printemps - B.P. 1024/F F-67070 Strasbourg Cedex
Party	Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya
Country	Spain
Greens / EFA Group	EFA President and first Vice President of the Greens/EFA Group
EFA	EFA President and first Vice President of the Greens/EFA Group
Bureau	First Vice-President
Committees	Constitutional Affairs (Member) Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Substitute Member) Terrorism (Special committee) (Substitute Member) Petitions (Coordinator) Petitions (Substitute Member)
Delegations	EU-Mexico (Member) Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (Member) EU-North Macedonia (Substitute Member)
Web	http://www.esquerra.cat
Social Media	http://twitter.com/jmterricabras
	Born in Calella in 1946, Josep-Maria Terricabras was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Girona prior to his election to the European Parliament in May 2014, as part of the L’Esquerra pel dret a decidir broad-left electoral coalition, which promotes the independence of Catalonia and social justice. He is a graduate of the University of Barcelona and the University of Münster, and has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Münster, St John’s College, Cambridge, and the University of California, Berkeley. His academic speciality is contemporary thought and he has published widely. He is also a member of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC), a civil society based grass-roots movement which draws together people of all backgrounds who want to see Catalonia become a new European state, and of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), (Institute of Catalan Studies).