Eva Borràs Balcells

REBÉS-FERRER is a law firm specializing in the provision of legal and advisory services in all areas of business law, offering efficient, innovative and practical solutions to meet the needs of clients, being one of the differentiating factors of REBÉS-FERRER proximity with the customer.

REBÉS-FERRER has offices in Barcelona, ​​Tarragona and Lleida.

Created in 1886, the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation of Barcelona is a public law corporation with a dual function: on the one hand, it represents, promotes and defends the general interests of commerce, industry, services and navigation and, on the other, it provides high value-added services to companies to improve their competitiveness, whether in the field of digitalisation, internationalisation, innovation, training or access to alternative financing channels.

Universitat Rovira i Virgili was created in 1991. In line with its aim of territorial decentralization, the university currently has 12 centers located in Tarragona, Reus, Vila-Seca, Tortosa and El Vendrell and offers a wide range of studies in a large number of academic disciplines.

The Managing Director reports hierarchically to the Rector and is a member of the Management Committee, the Executive Board, the Senate and the Social Council of the university.

In 2020, since it was the turn of the Rector of the URV to assume the presidency of the Catalan Association of Public Universities, the General Manager of the URV was, in turn, nominated as the Coordinating Manager of public universities, reporting to the Inter-university Council of Catalonia and the Catalan Government.

From 1996, the Hospital Clinic has been structured and organized in institutes, which respond to different medical and surgical specialities. These institutes have their own budget and management team and work with autonomy within the Hospital’s general framework.

As the Financial Director I had hierarchical responsibility over the following departments in the Financial Area: Accounting and Budgets, Contracting, Invoicing, Suppliers, Treasury, Economic processes and Reporting. I was also responsible for the functional management of the 17 Financial Heads of the Hospital’s institutes, areas, centres and cross-sectional departments and for the Hospital’s administrative staff (+500).

I was a member of the Management Committee and of the Executive Board of the Hospital, as well as being a permanent advisor to the Hospital’s Governing Council.

In 2011 the Sant Cugat City Council organized itself in three large areas: Services to the People, Territory and Urban Quality and Governance and Economy. The three managing directors reported both to the Manager of the City Council and their respective deputy Mayor.

As the Manager of the Area of Governance and Economy I was responsible for the departments of Economic Services; Quality, Processes and Document Management; Corporate Information; Trade; the Municipal Employment Service and Economic Promotion. I also liaised daily with the Auditing Department and the Treasury Department.

In 2012 I added to my responsibilities the ones of Treasurer of the Fundació Sant Cugat Actiu and later, in 2014, I was appointed a member of the Executive Delegate Commission of Fundació Sant Cugat Actiu.

In 2007, the Sabadell City Council organized itself in five areas: Presidency; Central Services; Services to the People; Relations with Citizens and Public Spaces; and the area of City Planning.

As the manager of the Area of Central Services I was responsible for the following services: Human Resources, Health and Safety at Work, Economic Services, Corporate Data, Information Technologies, Tributary Management and Collection, General Services, Treasury and Trade.

I also liaised daily with the Auditing Department and the Legal Advice Department.

In 2009 I added to my responsibilities that of Manager of IT Services for Sabadell City Council (IAS), an autonomous organization assigned to the City Council.

ICIC (ICEC at the present time) is a public company that was created in 2001 and assigned to the Department of Culture of the Catalan Government. It is in charge of the grants and soft credits designed for the cultural companies of Catalonia, as well as of their international promotion in fairs and specialized markets.

My responsibilities as a Managing Director were: to establish the goals and work criteria of the internal departments (Human Resources, Accounting and Budgets, Legal Advice and Communication), negotiate the labour conditions with the unions, coordinate the global activity of ICIC, fix the agenda and attend, together with the Director, to the monthly meetings of the Administration Council, and advice and substitute the Director when considered necessary.

In 2001 I was responsible for the departments of Human Resources, Accounting and Budgets and Legal Advice. Together with the Director, I defined and scheduled the lines of performance that had to be implemented and the short and mid-term goals to be achieved.

As the Economist of the Accounting and Budget Department my responsibilities were: to review the annual audits of public companies and autonomous organizations assigned to the Department of Culture; to study the proposals for contracting new debt or for re-financing existing debt when it required the additional guarantee of the Department, and to advice the top management of the Department in economic matters.