David Fernàndez i Ramos

David Fernàndez i Ramos (Barcelona, September 24, 1974) is a Catalan journalist, political and social activist. He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia in the tenth legislature for the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) from December 17, 2012, to August 4, 2015.

Biography Born on September 24, 1974, in Barcelona, he spent the first years of his life in Ripoll (Ripollès). His paternal grandfather, Saturnino Fernández, with whom he identified politically, was a communist, republican, and staunch anti-Franco militant. At university, he studied Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) but dropped out in the third year of his degree. He spent two years working as a sheet metal worker in the SEAT car factory, until an injury forced him to leave.

He has been active in the Catalan cooperative, alternative economy and ethical finance movements.

In 2014 he was appointed chairman of the Catalan Parliament's commission of inquiry into tax fraud and evasion and political corruption.

Artistic activity