| Diana Riba | |
| Office1: | Member of the European Parliament |
| Constituency1: | Spain |
| Term Start1: | 2 July 2019 |
| Birth Name: | Diana Riba i Giner |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1975 |
| Birth Place: | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Citizenship: | Spain |
| Party: | Republican Left of Catalonia |
| Otherparty: | Ahora Repúblicas |
| Spouse: | Raül Romeva |
| Children: | 2 |
Diana Riba i Giner (born 21 February 1975) is a Catalan politician from Spain and a member of the European Parliament.
Riba was born on 21 February 1975 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.[1] [2] She has a degree in pedagogy from the University of Barcelona.[1] [2]
Riba started her career at the Center for Initiatives and Research Centers in the Mediterranean Foundation (CIREM).[1] Later she worked for La Caixa Foundation co-ordinating and managing conferences on cinema and literature at the CaixaForum.[1] [2] She was a cultural programmer for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures held in Barcelona.[1] [2] She ran the Pati dels Llibres book shop in Sant Cugat del Vallès between 2008 and 2019.[1] [2] She was treasurer of the Catalan Council of the Children's and Youth Books (Consell Català del Llibre Infantil i Juvenil).[2] [3]
Riba is a member of the Castellers in Sant Cugat and the Catalan Association for Civil Rights (Associació Catalana pels Drets Civils).[1] [2] In December 2018 she was chosen by the Republican Left of Catalonia to be its number two candidate at the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain.[4] [5] [6] She contested the election as an Republics Now electoral alliance candidate in Spain and was elected to the European Parliament.[7] [8]
Riba is the partner of formerly jailed Catalan minister Raül Romeva.[9] [10] They have two children – Elda and Noah.[1] [2]
| Constituency | scope=col colspan="2" | Party | scope=col colspan="2" | Alliance | scope=col | No. | scope=col | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Elected |