Albert Rivera
Spanish politician (born 1979)
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- Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz (born 15 November 1979), known as Albert Rivera , is a Spanish former politician who was the leader of Citizens from its founding in 2006 until 2019.
- Early life and education Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz was born in Barcelona.
- As a child, Albert spent several summers in Cútar.
- Eventually his parents' opened their own business and moved to live in La Ametlla, where they sent their son to the private la Escola Cervetó school.
- He went on to study law at ESADE, part of the Ramon Llull University, completing the degree in 2001.
Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz (born 15 November 1979), known as Albert Rivera, is a Spanish former politician who was the leader of Citizens from its founding in 2006 until 2019. He was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia (2006–2015) and the Congress of Deputies (2015–2019).
Early life and education
Alberto Carlos Rivera Díaz was born in Barcelona. Albert Rivera Díaz is the only child of Agustín Rivera, member of a working-class family from La Barceloneta, and María Jesús Díaz, who had moved aged 13 from the small town of Cútar in Málaga province to follow in the footsteps of her elder brother, who had opened an electrical appliances shop.
As a child, Albert spent several summers in Cútar. Over the years, most of his maternal family also moved to Catalonia, except for his grandfather Lucas Díaz, who had been the first to emigrate in the 1960s to France and then to Switzerland.
Eventually his parents' opened their own business and moved to live in La Ametlla, where they sent their son to the private la Escola Cervetó school.
He won the Catalan swimming championships at the age of 16 and played for the Granollers water polo team.
He went on to study law at ESADE, part of the Ramon Llull University, completing the degree in 2001. He completed a master's degree in constitutional law from the same institution in 2002. He also studied for one year at the University of Helsinki in Finland, as part of an Erasmus scholarship. He has also taken a course at the George Washington University in political marketing.
After starting his degree in law, he began to be interested in politics by taking part in a debating competition.
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