A member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, before entering in national politics in 2021, she had a very active role in regional politics, being a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2010 to 2023 and spokesperson for her party in the same regional parliament from 2015 to 2021.
She has studied Political Science and Administration at the University of Barcelona, a Master in Public Management at ESADE and is an expert in the labor market and social dialogue at the Complutense University of Madrid in collaboration with the Julián Besteiro School of UGT. She has been linked to the University of Barcelona in the field of research and Human Rights and to information and encouragement of young people in the Student Information and Services Center of Catalonia (CISEC).[1]
She is a member of the patronage of the Rafael Campalans Foundation, dedicated to the dissemination of democratic socialist thought.[2]
Political career
He has belonged to the Association of Young Students of Catalonia (AJEC). Granados is part of the Party of the Socialists of Catalonia since 1999 in the Group of Pallejà in the Federation of the Baix Llobregat.
Affiliated in the General Union of Workers of Catalonia, she has been a member of the National Secretariat of the UGT from 2002 to 2010. She has represented UGT as a counselor and vice-president of the Economic and Social Work Council of Catalonia, in the Occupation Service of Catalonia, Industrial Pact of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and the Strategic Metropolitan Plan of Barcelona. He has also been a member of the Economic and Social Council of Spain, the Public Employment Service of the State and the Council of the European Social Fund.
In November 2010, she was elected deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia for the seat of Barcelona, which she revalidated in November 2012. She has been deputy spokesperson for the socialist group in the Catalan parliament and from January 2013 to August 2015, date of dissolution of the X legislature and spokesperson for the Commission for Social Welfare, Family and Immigration of its parliamentary group.
Since December 2011 she has been a member of the PSC executive, first led by Pere Navarro[3] and since June 2014 by Miquel Iceta, where she is responsible for Social Cohesion.[4][5]
In March 2015, she was part of the Promoting Commission of the Popular Legislative Initiative for Guaranteed Citizenship Income, supported by personalities from the cultural sphere and more than 50 social, civic and political entities to demand from the Catalan government the processing of a proposal of law on this subject carried out by way of urgency.[6]
State Secretary Granados and European Commissioner Helena Dalli during a trip to Mexico
As the top official responsible for Spanish Cooperation, the state secretary has accompanied Queen Letizia on international cooperation trips to Guatemala (2024),[15] Cape Verde (2025)[16] and Bolivia (2026),[17] and has also made solo trips to Mauritania and Senegal in November 2024,[18] Guatemala and Costa Rica in November 2025[19] and to Panama in February 2026,[20] among others.
In 2025, Granados promoted to apply a feminist approach to the development financing policy, in cooperation with the Carolina Foundation and UN Women. In this sense, Granados defended this feminist approach "to contribute to more equitable, prosperous and sustainable societies" and, to achieve this, she emphasized "we are working to mainstream the gender perspective across all areas of the development finance agenda: from reforming the international financial architecture to designing financial instruments and gender-responsive budgeting".[21]
In the context of the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which Spain attended and whose delegation was headed by Granados, on 11 March 2026 she presented, at the Instituto Cervantes headquarters in New York, the first Feminist Cooperation Strategy of the Spanish government.[22] This strategy revolves around four pillars: 1. women's rights, 2. women's institutional representation and participation, 3. human & financial resources, and 4. alliances to achieve them.[23]
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