Xavier Prats Monné

Xavier Prats Monné has spent most of his professional career at the European Commission in Brussels. He currently chairs the Advisory Board of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He is the Special Advisor of Teach for All, a global non-profit dedicated to expanding educational opportunities. He also chairs the Board of Teach for All Europe and is the President of the Board of Governors of Sant Pau, Spain’s oldest public hospital.

He is a Board Member of the Banco Sabadell Foundation and of various non-profit organizations, including Dones Mentores, dedicated to the eradication of gender-based violence. He chairs the Committee for Europe of the King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium) and serves as Education and Public Health Advisor at the Jacques Delors Institute (Paris).

At the European Commission, he served as Director-General for Health and Food Safety (2015–2018), and from 2011 to 2015 as Deputy Director-General and then Director-General for Education and Culture. In this capacity, he was responsible for the EU’s education and culture policies and programmes, including Erasmus+, Marie Curie and Creative Europe, and represented the European Commission at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

He graduated in Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid and holds postgraduate degrees in Economic Development from the Centre International des Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM) and in European Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium), where he graduated top of his class and served as Assistant Professor. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Istituto Massimo in Rome, Italy. He received Spain’s Civil Order of Alfonso X El Sabio and holds an honorary PhD from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV).