IC2012 Madrid

Juan Luis Cebrian

Juan Luis Cebrián is the CEO and chairman of the executive committee of the Spanish media group PRISA, as well as vice president of Prisa TV and chairman of the daily newspaper El País. Prisa is the largest group in education, communication, media and entertainment fields in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking worlds, present in twenty-two Latin American countries. Cebrián was managing editor and deputy editor in chief of Madrid dailies Pueblo and Informaciones, to be later appointed head of the news services of Spanish public television (TVE). In January 1976, he became the founding editor in chief of El País, which has been the leading paper for more than three decades not only in Spain but in the whole Spanish-speaking market. From 1986 to1988, he was also president of the International Press Institute (IPI). In October 1988, he took over as chief executive officer of El País and Grupo Prisa. He was named chairman of the executive committee of the board of Prisa in December 2008, and recently appointed chairman of El País. He is a graduate from the Official School of Journalism and from the Complutense University of Madrid. He also studied philosophy. Cebrián is a steady member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 1996 and has authored numerous books both of fiction and essays.