Esperança Rabat, graduated from Barcelona's Universitat Autònoma with a degree in Art History. She also studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the EINA Design School. She has worked as art and design critic for such newspapers as "El Món", "La Vanguardia" and El Mundo, among other general and specialised publications. She is the author of several editions of "Anuari del Disseny a Catalunya", published by Fundació BCD, and a book "Plural Design", (ADP, Ediciones del Serbal). She has curated several exhibitions, including "Regenerar, suggerir. Carles Riart. Mobles i dibuixos", 1969-1995, (Barcelona, 1995). She has taught art and design at DIAC, EINA and ESDI.

Together with Marta Barangé, she won the international competition "Contenitori di Memoria" with a tray produced in 1992 by the Italian firm Alessi. She was a member of the ADI FAD Board of Directors from 1987 to 1990 and the FAD Executive Committee from 1990 to 1997.