Xavier Masllorens, new President of ICIP

The ICIP Board of Governors elected Xavier Masllorens as the new President of the Institution, in substitution of former president Rafael Grasa. The replacement is due to the renovation of part of the Board members appointed by the Parliament of Catalonia, which also meant the end of mandate of Grasa.
Xavier Masllorens, graduate in psychology and activist of social movements, has been former president of FundiPau, and General Director of the NGO Education without Borders and of the Organization for Intellectual Disability of Catalonia (Dincat). He has also worked as communication director for Sindic de Greuges and Intermon Oxfam.
The ICIP Board of Governors, as established by article 6 of the Law 14/2007 for the creation of ICIP, is composed by ten members: seven appointed by the Catalan Parliament (Cécile Barbeito, Carme Colomina, Vicent Martínez Guzmán, Xavier Masllorens, Óscar Mateos, Magda Oranich and Antoni Pigrau) and three other appointed by the Government (Carme Garcia, David Minoves and Manel Vila).