She was born in
Avignon, France. 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. She specialized in industrial reconversions, the history of economic thought and
European economics. Casals was also the representative of the UAB in the
Xarxa Vives d'Universitats (Vives University Networks) between 2002 and 2009. She had been a visiting professor at the
University of Edinburgh, the
London School of Economics and the
University of Wales at
Bangor. She was a frequent collaborator with the weekly
El Temps and the Economics and Business program on
Catalunya Informació. She was a member of the Council of the Catalan Corporation for Public Broadcasting (1983–1988), and member of the Catalan Council of the
European Movement. She was a member of the board of the
Ateneu Barcelonès (2003–2007). She served on the board of
Òmnium Cultural between 2008 and 2015, and had been its president since 10 March 2010. On 9 September 2011 she received the Premi Identitat, as part of the Nit d'Identitat organized by the group Identitat from Cornellà. Casals died in
Barcelona on 14 February 2016 due to complications from being hit by a bicyclist. == References ==