Concepció Ferrer

Concepció Ferrer Casals (born 27 January 1938) is a Spanish philologist, teacher and politician, the Second Deputy Defender of the People of Spain since 2012.

Biography With a licentiate in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona, In the municipal elections of 1979, she was elected councilor of the municipality of Figueres. both times within the candidacy of Convergence and Union (CiU). From 1980 to 1984 she served as First Vice-President of the Catalan Parliament.

In the European elections of 1987 she was elected deputy of the European Parliament, a seat that she renewed in the successive electoral calls until 2004. At the European level, she was vice-president of the European People's Party and president of the Unión Femenina Democristiana Europea. She has been a member of the Academic and Social Council of the International University of Catalonia, and in 2012 she was elected Second Deputy of the Defender of the People, a responsibility she currently holds. In 2011, she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.

Works El Parlament Europeu, motor de la construcció europea Nacionalisme i europeisme (1990) Reflexions europees (1994) La Utopia d'Europa (1994), Petita Història d'Europa (1998), Una veu a Europa (1999), Torn de paraula (2004), Petita Història dels Drets Humans (2010),