Dionisio F. Romero Seminario (born 1 April 1936) is a Peruvian banker who served as chairman of

Banco de Crédito del Perú Banco de Crédito del Perú is the largest bank and the largest supplier of integrated financial services in Perú with approximately US$39 billion in total assets and a market share of 30.4% in total loans and 33.5% in total deposits. Operations ...

and

Credicorp Credicorp is the leading financial services holding company in Peru, with presence in Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Panama and the United States. It currently has a consolidated universal banking, insurance and pension platform that serves all segme ...

. Romero was born on 1 April 1936 in

Piura Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located in the Sechura Desert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province. Its population was 484,475 as of 2017. It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro fou ...

to Dionisio Romero Iturrospe and Micaela Seminario Aljovin. He descends from a landowning family of Spanish origin in the north of Peru. He was educated in

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at San Rafael Military Academy,

Pomona College Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became ...

and

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, where he graduated with a

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. Romero was the chairman of

from 1966 to 1987, and has served as a board member from December 1990 to March 2009. He was the chairman of

and had held this position since August 1995 until March 2009. Additionally he serves as a director on the boards of various other companies. He is one of the richest people in Peru, with a fortune of more than US$1 billion.

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Living people 20th-century Peruvian businesspeople Peruvian people of Spanish descent Stanford University alumni 1936 births Pomona College alumni {{Peru-economist-stub