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We are working to defeat this disease and achieve a future in which aging is associated with positive experiences.
We are working to defeat this disease and achieve a future in which aging is associated with positive experiences.
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We talk about Alzheimer's and its impact on those affected and their families.
We believe that only through research will we achieve a future without Alzheimer's.
We work towards changing the social perception of the disease through dissemination and public advocacy.
We put Alzheimer's on the political agenda.
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With an unpredictable and charismatic personality, his time in various institutions made him an admired and loved figure for his fellow citizens, who see him as a different politician, faithful to his ideas, bold, imaginative and close to the people.
Mayor of Barcelona for 15 years (1982-1997) and President of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Committee.
President of the Generalitat of Catalonia from 2003 to 2006.
Lifetime President of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. On 20 October 2007 he announced his Alzheimer's diagnosis and launched the Foundation that bears his name, with the aim of defeating the disease.
Pasqual Maragall was born in Barcelona in 1941. A graduate in Law and Economics from the University of Barcelona, he undertook postgraduate studies in Strasbourg, Rome, Paris and, above all, New York, at the New School for Social Research, where he completed the Master in International Economics and Urban Economics. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1979, with a thesis entitled "Land prices, the case of Barcelona".
He has taught at the Universities of Baltimore, Barcelona and Rome. As a student, he was involved in the underground political struggle against Franco's dictatorhip. During Spain's democratic transition of the late 1970s, Maragall participated in the formation of the Socialist Party. After the first municipal elections in 1979, he became deputy mayor in charge of administrative reform and finance.
In 1982, at the age of 41, he succeeded Narcís Serra as mayor of Barcelona. Pasqual Maragall, who won every municipal elections he stood for, was mayor of Barcelona for 15 consecutive years, until 1997.He presided over a major urban transformation and a radical modernisation of public administration. The 1992 Olympic Games were used to achieve this, and Barcelona has since become a world reference.
In 2003, Maragall was elected President of the Generalitat of Catalonia.His legislative period was marked by the process of reforming the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, which had been in force since 1979.
The Pasqual Maragall Digital Archive (ADPM) project is a response to Pasqual Maragall's expressed desire to share his experience with all citizens, especially in the public sphere, so that it can be useful in building the present and the future.
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