STRUCTURE AND OPERATION

It is through the Council of Twenty that the Consolat de Mar operates, as stated at the Ordinance of the Consolat de Mar, the internal regulation that governs the Institution.

The Council of Twienty is formed by the President of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, who presides the Council, and twenty other consuls: nineteen of them who are appointed by the Plenary Session of the Chamber, at the Executive Committee’s proposal. The twentieth consul is the President of the Barcelona Grain Exchange, given its historical cooperation this organization has had with the Consolat de Mar. The secretariat of the Consolat de Mar is exercised by the Secretary General of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce.

President

Josep Santacreu Bonjoch

Josep Santacreu graduated in Medicine by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and PhD in business organization by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He owns a diploma in Business Administration and Management and Hospital Management from ESADE, a diploma in Health Economics from the UAB and a graduate degree in the Stanford Executive Program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He has an extensive career in business management in the health, insurance and NGO sectors besides his intense work with the areas of CSR and social entrepreneurship. From 1997 to 2023 he was CEO of DKV Seguros and in 2000 he promoted the DKV Integralia Foundation, amongst other positions of responsibility that he has held so far.

Furthermore, in 2016 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi awarded by the Generalitat of Catalonia and he has appeared on the list of the companies and CEOs with the best business reputation in Spain.

Since October 2023, he is the President of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, a corporation of which he was a member of the plenary session from 2006 to 2019. He also holds the second vice presidency of Fira Barcelona, the Barcelona Trade Fair Organization.

Secretary General

Xavier Coronas has been Secretary General of the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce since 2011. He also serves as Secretary of several economic promotion organizations within the areas of tourism, local markets, design, environment and air transport.

He is also a member of several arbitration and alternative conflict resolution institutions, such as the Consolat de Mar of Barcelona, the Transport Arbitration Board of Catalonia, the Barcelona Arbitration Court and the Arbitrators Committee of the Spanish Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce.

He is a member of the Mediation Advisory Committee of the Generalitat of Catalonia. He has a Law degree, and a Diploma in International Relations. He holds several postgraduate degrees, a Master’s degree in social and economic sciences, and a Diploma from IESE in management improvement.