Carlos Pérez de Bricio
Carlos Pérez de Bricio (born 1927) is a Spanish businessman and retired politician. He was the minister of industry in the period 1975–1977. Biography. Pérez de Bricio was born in Madrid in 1927. He was the official of the Special Technical Customs Corps. In 1955 he was appointed delegate of Spain to the International Customs Cooperation Council based in Brussels and became its president in 1967. In 1968 he was elected as the executive president of the Union of Iron and Steel Companies and Entities and as the vice president of the Iron and Steel Basic  Industries Commission. In April 1969 he served as the president of the OECD's subcommittee on iron and steel. In November 1969 he was appointed general director of Iron and Steel and Naval Industries. He held this position for six years until 1975 when he was appointed minister of industry in the second cabinet of Carlos Arias Navarro on 12 December 1975. He continued to serve in the same post in the cabinet led by Adolfo Suárez from 8 July 1976. From April to July 1997 he was the acting minister of public works replacing Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo in the  post who was dismissed from the office. Pérez de Bricio was the executive president of Cepsa, a multinational oil and gas company, from 1985 to 2015. In July 2008 he was named as the independent director of Banesto, a Spanish credit bank, of which he is also a shareholder.