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Who we are

The board of trustees of the AUBA foundation is the foundation's board of directors, and it is composed of individuals with a distinguished trajectory and a strong commitment to the world in which we live.

Oleguer Serra

Oleguer Serra is the president of the AUBA Foundation. He is also the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Moeenia, a cybersecurity company based in Barcelona and Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Additionally, served as an executive at Òmnium Cultural since 2012.

Serra holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (1990-1998) and a master's degree in cybersecurity from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has a background as an entrepreneur and has worked as a consultant in information technology, communications, and information security for various companies. Oleguer Serra served as the CEO of Òmnium Cultural from 2012 to 2018, during which time he played a significant role in the organization's technological transformation and social growth.

Jordi Serra

Jordi Serra holds executive positions in various Swiss non-profit associations and is currently an independent consultant. He studied industrial engineering at the ETSIB in Barcelona, and after an initial period in various schools and the Government of Catalonia (Departments of Education and Culture), he has always been connected to the sports world (COOB'92, General Directorate of Sports, International Table Tennis Federation). In this International Federation, he served as Technical Director (1998-2000), Executive Director (2001-2012), and Director of Operations (2018-2022), always working in Switzerland.

Neus Torbisco

Neus Torbisco Casals is a Senior Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, in addition to being a member of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and an associate professor of Law at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Her main research areas include human rights, cultural diversity, and identity claims; the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, laws against discrimination, and gender and race equality.

Torbisco holds a Doctorate in Law from Pompeu Fabra University. Since then, she has taught at various universities, including Pompeu Fabra University, the University of Puerto Rico, and the Global Law School at New York University, where she was also a Hauser Research Scholar (2003-2004). In 2012, she was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Montserrat Bellprat

Montserrat Bellprat is Head of Members and Community at SwissFoundations (since 2005).

Montserrat was born in Switzerland and has lived in Winterthur, Kanton Zurich and Vancouver B.C. Canada. She is fluent in 6 languages. She holds a Master's degree in Strategic Marketing and Management of Services for NPOs from the University of Lucerne. She was Head of Human Resources in a scenography agency (1990 - 2000) and later founded her own company for management services (2000 - 2017). The association of grant-making foundation was created in 2001, giving the foundations a strong and independent voice. As an active network dedicated to innovation, the association fosters the exchange of expertise, transparency and professionalism in the Swiss foundation sector.

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Auba is born to bring Catalan Culture to the world

Catalan culture has been expressed to the world through culture of innovation, a way of doing things, a will to advance. Catalonia is present in the world thanks to the talent of the Catalans, and at the Auba Foundation we work to highlight this extraordinary work.

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