Carlos Pérez de Bricio (1927 – 16 July 2022) was a Spanish businessman and politician who was the minister of industry from 1975 to 1977.

Biography

Pérez de Bricio was born in Madrid in 1927. He was the official of the Special Technical Customs Corps. In 1955 he was appointed delegate of Spain to the International Customs Cooperation Council based in Brussels and became its president in 1967. In 1968 he was elected as the executive president of the Union of Iron and Steel Companies and Entities and as the vice president of the Iron and Steel Basic Industries Commission. In April 1969 he served as the president of the

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's subcommittee on iron and steel. In November 1969 he was appointed general director of Iron and Steel and Naval Industries. He held this position for six years until 1975 when he was appointed minister of industry in the second cabinet of

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on 12 December 1975. He continued to serve in the same post in the

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led by

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from 8 July 1976. He was the acting minister of public works between April and July 1997, replacing

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in the post who was dismissed from the office. Pérez de Bricio founded Confemetal in 1978 and headed it until 2011. He was the executive president of

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, a multinational oil and gas company, from 1985 to 2015. In July 2008 he was named as the independent director of

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, a Spanish credit bank, of which he was also a shareholder. Pérez de Bricio died in Madrid on 16 July 2022, at the age of 94.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez Bricio, Carlos 20th-century Spanish businesspeople 21st-century Spanish businesspeople 1927 births 2022 deaths Industry ministers of Spain Politicians from Madrid