Juan Luis Cebrián

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The Most Excellent Juan Luis Cebrián
Chairman of Prisa
In office 2012–2017
Vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2017
Seat V of the Real Academia Española
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 May 1997[a]
Preceded by	Emilio García Gómez
Personal details
Born	Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (1944-10-30) 30 October 1944 (age 80) Madrid, Spain
Parent	Vicente Cebrián (father)
Alma mater	Universidad Complutense
Occupation	Journalist, business and writer

Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri (born 30 October 1944)^[1] is a Spanish journalist and businessman, the co-founder of El País. He was CEO of Prisa, a Spanish media conglomerate, from 2012 to 2017, until ousted by Joseph Oughourlian.

Cebrián was born in Madrid in 1944.^[2] He studied philosophy at the Universidad Complutense, and earned a bachelor's degree from the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo.^[3]

He was one of the founding members of the political magazine Cuadernos para el Dialogo and worked from 1963 to 1975 as a senior worker and deputy editor of daily newspaper Pueblo and Informaciones de Madrid.^[4]

He was the founding editor of the daily newspaper El País, in which he edited from 1976 and 1988.^[2] Between 1986 and 1988 he was the chairman of the International Press Institute (I.P.I) .^{[citation needed]}

In December 1996, Cebrián was elected to Seat V of the Real Academia Española, and took up his seat in May 1997.^[1]

He was chairman of PRISA from 2012 to 2017.^[5][6] Details of his dismissal were not clear in 2017.^[7] Cebrián left all his executive positions in PRISA on May 21, 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Since May 2017, Cebrian has been vice president of the Asociación de Medios de Información (AMI), chaired by Javier Moll.^[8]

In April 2024, Cebrián was dismissed as honorary president of El País, after he signed on to the digital periodical "The Objective".^[9][10]

Cebrián managed the news service Televisión Española.^{[citation needed]}

Various international media have considered Cebrián one of the ten most influential Spaniards in Spain and Latin America for 44 years (from 1976 to 2019).^{[citation needed]}

He has been the only Hispanic academic member of the Bilderberg Club and the only Spanish-speaking member with executive functions in that organization.^{[citation needed]}

Between 1980 and 2016 Cebrián published 19 books in Spanish consisting of fiction and essay based writing, including the first part of his memoirs.^{[citation needed]}

Cebrián has been mentioned in the Panama Papers.^[11] La Sexta revealed in 2016, that he owned 2% of Star Petroleum, an oil corporation with offshore tax havens. After the publication, he decided to take legal action against La Sexta.^[12][13]

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