# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-clos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:52:35.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-clos"
name: "Joan Clos"
slug: "joan-clos"
description: "Joan Clos i Matheu, GCIH is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was elected to a four-year term, and was then re-elected in the municipal elections of 25 May 2003. In September 2006, he left Barcelona Town Hall, after nine years of office, as he was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. After a stint as the Spanish Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan, in 2010 he was appointed as executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-HABITAT), and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. Joan Clos is also president of the Spanish Chapter of The International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI)."
tagline: "Catalan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Clos_2011_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-06-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.92
  momentum:             4.170616113744076
  historical:           10.77638933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Joanclos"
    handle:    "Joanclos"
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Clos_i_Matheu"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "چوان كلوس اى ماثيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos_i_Matheu"
    title: "Joan Clos i Matheu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%BF%CE%AC%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Ζοάν Κλος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clos"
    title: "Joan Clos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1690734"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump