Muriel Casals i Couturier (6 April 1945 – 14 February 2016) was a Catalan economist with both Spanish and French nationalities.

Couturier was a professor in the Department of Economics and Historical Economics in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), where she was also vice dean of International Relations and Cooperation between 2002 and 2005.

[1] She was a frequent collaborator with the weekly El Temps and the Economics and Business program on Catalunya Informació.

She served on the board of Òmnium Cultural between 2008 and 2015, and had been its president since 10 March 2010.

Casals died in Barcelona on 14 February 2016 due to complications from being hit by a bicyclist.