Concepció Ferrer Casals (born 27 January 1938) is a Spanish philologist, teacher and politician, the Second Deputy Defender of the People of Spain since 2012.
[1][2] With a licentiate in Romance Philology from the University of Barcelona,[2] since the 1970s Concepció Ferrer has lived in Figueres, where she has been a professor of contemporary literature.
[3] Later, she obtained the Catalonian Parliament seat for the constituency of Girona when the first elections were held after the approval of the Statute of Catalan Autonomy, renewing her mandate in 1984,[4] both times within the candidacy of Convergence and Union (CiU).
[7] She has been a member of the Academic and Social Council of the International University of Catalonia, and in 2012 she was elected Second Deputy of the Defender of the People, a responsibility she currently holds.
[2] In 2011, she was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi.