Joan Clos
Joan Clos i Matheu,
GCIH (; born 29 June 1949) is a Spanish politician who was
mayor of Barcelona,
Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from
Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was elected to a four-year term, and was then re-elected in the municipal elections of 25 May 2003. In September 2006, he left Barcelona Town Hall, after nine years of office, as he was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade by Spanish Prime Minister
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. After a stint as the Spanish Ambassador in
Turkey and
Azerbaijan, in 2010 he was appointed as
executive director of the
United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-HABITAT), and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. Joan Clos is also president of the Spanish Chapter of The International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI).
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