Barcelona City Council
Pau Aleikum Garcia is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in data, design, and communication. As the Director and Founding Partner at Domestic Data Streamers since 2013, Pau has championed the transformative power of data. Current roles include serving on the Communication Advisory Committee for Barcelona City Council and overseeing operations for Cedra Trust, where efforts focus on integrating Gen-AI systems responsibly. Additionally, Pau holds positions as Master Director and Associate Professor at ELISAVA, Board Member at 16TIMES, Partner at Åkerblom Studio, and Member of the Scientific Committee for DIGICOM. Pau's academic contributions include adjunct professorships in data science at Barcelona School of Economics and a visiting research fellowship at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. Education includes a Master's degree in Media Studies and a Bachelor's in Design and Visual Communications from institutions such as the Elisava School of Design and the University of Michigan.
Barcelona City Council
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Barcelona is governed by a city council formed by 41 city councillors, elected for a four-year term by universal suffrage. As one of the two biggest cities in Spain, Barcelona is subject to a special law articulated through the Carta Municipal (Municipal Law). A first version of this law was passed in 1960 and amended later, but the current version was approved in March 2006. According to this law, Barcelona's city council is organized in two levels: a political one, with elected city councillors, and one executive, which administrates the programs and executes the decisions taken on the political level. This law also gives the local government a special relationship with the Spanish government and it also gives the mayor wider prerogatives by the means of municipal executive commissions. It expands the powers of the city council in areas like telecommunications, city traffic, road safety and public safety. It also gives a special economic regime to the city's treasury and it gives the council a veto in matters that will be decided by the central government, but that will need a favourable report from the council.