Juan Luis Cebrián
Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944) is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of El País, and CEO of Prisa, a Spanish media conglomerate. Cebrián was born in Madrid in 1944. He studied philosophy at the Universidad Complutense, and earned a bachelor's degree from the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo. He has been editor-in-chief of the Spanish daily newspaper El País since 1976. Cebrián was elected to Seat V of the Real Academia Española in December 1996, and took up his seat in May 1997. He was chairman of Prisa from 2012 to 2017. Cebrian is vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información (AMI), chaired by Javier Moll, since May 2017. Cebrián left all his executive positions in PRISA on May 21, 2018. The Presidency of El País was left to Manuel Mirat, and Cebrián was named Honorary President of El País. Cebrián has been considered by various international media as one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019). He was one of the founding members of the political magazine Cuadernos para el Dialogo and has worked as a senior worker and deputy editor of