Miquel Iceta

Miquel Iceta Llorens (born 17 August 1960) is a Spanish politician who served as minister of Culture and Sport from July 2021 to November 2023 and as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service from January to July 2021.

Born on 17 August 1960 in Barcelona, he began studying chemistry but abandoned his studies after a year; he then enrolled as an Economics student in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), from whence he was expelled after sitting his first year five times, thus reaching the maximum amount of repeats allowed by university regulations.

A politician trusted by Narcís Serra,[6] the latter, Vice-President of the Government, appointed him Director of the Analysis Department of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government,[7] a responsibility he held from 1991 to 1995, when he became Deputy Director of the Cabinet.

Iceta publicly declared his homosexuality in October 1999, during the campaign for the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 1999; he was then considered the first Spanish politician to do so.

On 27 January 2021, Pedro Sánchez appointed him as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service of the Spanish government.