Eva Granados

Eva Maria Granados Galiano (born 6 January 1975) is a Spanish politician serving as Secretary of State for International Cooperation since 2023 and as senator representing the Parliament of Catalonia since 2021.

A member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, before entering in national politics in 2021, she had a very active role in regional politics, being a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2010 to 2023 and spokesperson for her party in the same regional parliament from 2015 to 2021.

In October 2021, the Catalan parliament appointed her as senator and, in the Senate, she served as spokesperson of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 2021 to 2023. In December 2023, foreign minister José Manuel Albares appointed her as Secretary of State for International Cooperation.

Biography
She has studied Political Science and Administration at the University of Barcelona, a Master in Public Management at ESADE and is an expert in the labor market and social dialogue at the Complutense University of Madrid in collaboration with the Julián Besteiro School of UGT. She has been linked to the University of Barcelona in the field of research and Human Rights and to information and encouragement of young people in the Student Information and Services Center of Catalonia (CISEC).

She is a member of the patronage of the Rafael Campalans Foundation, dedicated to the dissemination of democratic socialist thought.

Political career
He has belonged to the Association of Young Students of Catalonia (AJEC). Granados is part of the Party of the Socialists of Catalonia since 1999 in the Group of Pallejà in the Federation of the Baix Llobregat.

Affiliated in the General Union of Workers of Catalonia, she has been a member of the National Secretariat of the UGT from 2002 to 2010. She has represented UGT as a counselor and vice-president of the Economic and Social Work Council of Catalonia, in the Occupation Service of Catalonia, Industrial Pact of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and the Strategic Metropolitan Plan of Barcelona. He has also been a member of the Economic and Social Council of Spain, the Public Employment Service of the State and the Council of the European Social Fund.

In November 2010, she was elected deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia for the seat of Barcelona, which she revalidated in November 2012. She has been deputy spokesperson for the socialist group in the Catalan parliament and from January 2013 to August 2015, date of dissolution of the X legislature and spokesperson for the Commission for Social Welfare, Family and Immigration of its parliamentary group.

Since December 2011 she has been a member of the PSC executive, first led by Pere Navarro and since June 2014 by Miquel Iceta, where she is responsible for Social Cohesion.

In March 2015, she was part of the Promoting Commission of the Popular Legislative Initiative for Guaranteed Citizenship Income, supported by personalities from the cultural sphere and more than 50 social, civic and political entities to demand from the Catalan government the processing of a proposal of law on this subject carried out by way of urgency.

In July 2015 it was announced that she would occupy the number of 2 on the PSC list that Miquel Iceta will head to the regional elections on 27 September. She occupied the same place in the lists for the regional elections of 21 December 2017 after the dissolution of the Parliament in application of article 155 of the Spanish Constitution.

In December 2023, foreign minister José Manuel Albares appointed her as Secretary of State for International Cooperation.