Ernest Urtasun i Domènech (Catalan pronunciation: [əɾˈnest uɾˈtazun]; born 27 January 1982) is a Spanish ecosocialist politician and economist, serving as Minister of Culture of Spain since 2023.

Born on 27 January 1982 in Barcelona,[1] Urtasun joined Joves d'Esquerra Verda [es], the youth wing of Initiative for Catalonia Greens (ICV), when he was 15 years old.

[2] Later, he began working as a diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and in 2011 became director of the general secretariat of the international organization Union for the Mediterranean.

He served in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM), also joining the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (DLAT) and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (DCAM).

[9] After the 2019 european elections, in which he ran under the Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa banner, he was appointed as Greens/EFA deputy chairman, under the leadership of co-chairs Ska Keller and Philippe Lamberts.