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Alberto Alcocer
Alberto Alcocer Torra (born December 17, 1942, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish businessman who, along with his cousin Alberto Cortina, owns Alcor Holding, a patrimonial society that owns 12.5% of Grupo ACS, the largest Spanish construction company, and 21% of the waste management company, Ence. As of March 2011, Forbes ranked him as the 13th richest person in Spain and the 993rd globally, with an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion. Biography Alcocer's uncle, Pedro Cortina Mauri, was the foreign minister during the Francoist dictatorship, and his paternal grandfather, Alberto Alcocer y Ribacoba, was the Mayor of Madrid in the 1920s and again in the 1930s. In addition to Alberto Cortina, another cousin, Alfonso Cortina (d. 2020), was also a business executive. Alcocer studied Law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 1969, he married Esther Koplowitz, and they kept their property separate. The cousins started working at the company Constructions and Contracts, founded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
