Nicolás Franco y Pascual de Pobil (born 22 October 1937) is a Spanish naturalist and economist who was President of the

International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) (French: ''Conseil International de la Chasse et de la Conservation du Gibier'', German: ''Internationaler Rat zur Erhaltung des Wildes und der Jagd'') is a politically independe ...

between 1993 and 1999. He is a nephew of

Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (born Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and dictator who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces i ...

as the only son of his older brother, Nicolás Franco.

Biography

Nicolás Franco was born in 1937 in

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during his father's time as ambassador of Spain in Italy. His father was Nicolás Franco y Bahamonde, the eldest child of Nicolás Franco y Salgado-Aráujo and María del Pilar Bahamonde y Pardo de Andrade, and was a brother of

, who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975. His mother was María Isabel Pascual de Pobil y Ravello. A close friend of

Juan Carlos I Juan Carlos I (; Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until Abdication of Juan Carlos I, his abdic ...

during his exile in

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, he was sent to study in England at

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, a

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boarding school in

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, where he stayed from 1953 to 1954. He received his doctorate in

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from the Centre d'Etudes Industrielles of

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in 1959. He was later a fellow associate with Walter Adams at the

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. After many years of his hunting exploits travelling around the world, he was elected President of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) in 1993, where he served for most of the 1990s.María J. Pintor, "Un sobrino del dictador Franco controla el principal portal online de caza" in ''Diario16'', 30 September 2019
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