Joan Manuel Tresserras, born in Rubí in 1955, has a PhD in Information Sciences and is a professor at the Communication, Media and Culture Department of the Autonoma University of Barcelona, specialized in history and communication and cultural politics.
He was the director of the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the Autonoma University of Barcelona (1991-1993), consultant of the Audiovisual Board of Catalonia (2000-2006), and member of the Committee for the Mixed Transferences State-Generalitat (2004-2006). From 2006 to 2010 he was the Minister of Culture and Mass Media of the conseller de Cultura i mitjans de comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya.