| Office: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
| Term Start: | 1979 |
| Term End: | 2000 |
| Constituency: | Barcelona |
| Birth Date: | 15 December 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Barcelona, Spain |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Profession: | Academic |
Anna Balletbó i Puig (born 15 December 1943) is a Spanish academic, journalist and politician. She was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Balletbò was born in Barcelona on 15 December 1943. Her aunt was the grandmother of football manager Pep Guardiola.[1]
Balletbò attended a boarding school in England where she studied the English language.[1] She attended a journalism institute in Spain.[1] She is a graduate of the University of Barcelona where she received a degree in educational sciences.[2] She also obtained a degree in modern history and communication sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[2]
Following her graduation Balletbò worked as a pre-school teacher for seven years.[1] Then she started her journalistic career being a regular contributor of the newspaper El Correo Catalán.[1] Then she began to work for BBC.[1]
In 1979 Balletbò was elected as a deputy from Barcelona for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[3] Her tenure at the Congress of Deputies ended in 2000.[1] [4]
Balletbò worked as a faculty member at the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 1975 and became a professor at the Faculty of Information Sciences.[5] She was part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[6] She is also cofounder of the Olof Palme International Foundation which was established in Barcelona in 1989. Balletbò has been the head of the organization.[7]
Balletbò has published various books and articles.[8]
Balletbò received the Swedish decoration Order of the Polar Star in 1985 and the Catalan decoration Creu de Sant Jordi in 2006.[5]