Lluís Puig i Gordi (Terrassa, 18 October 1959) is an art director, dancer, musician, folklorist and Spanish politician from Catalonia.
[1][2] Born in Terrassa in 1959 he studied music, dance, audiovisual production and humanities from the Open University of Catalonia.
He was also a dancer and director of several traditional dancing clubs from different cities: Terrassa, Catalunya Dansa, Igualada, Barcelona, and Rubí.
During this period he managed to invite popular groups and artists like: Mishima, Santiago Auserón, Roger Mas, Omar Sosa, La Gossa Sorda, At Versaris, Els Surfing Sirles...[4] During the first mandate of Artur Mas i Gavarro, Puig joined the political party Convergence and Union and assumed the position of general director of Popular Culture in 2011, until he was designated Minister of Culture of Catalonia on 5 July 2017.
In August 2020, a court in Brussels, Belgium ruled that a European Arrest Warrant, issued against Puig by Spanish authorities, could not be executed.