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Manuel Rodriguez de Castro

Manuel Rodriguez de Castro [1] (Seville, 1964) is an economist, lawyer and businessman Spanish.

The primary studies done in the Colegio Santa María del Pilar in Madrid, while the university makes the United States, at the La Salle Institute, in New Orleans, Louisiana. In his youth he lived in Madrid, United States, Colombia and France.

Later, in the early 90's pursued graduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in International Relations (Instituto Ortega y Gasset). Also specializing in Real Estate and Financial Studies at the Centre For Real Estate (CRE) at MIT [2] and the Graduate School Of Design (GSD) [3] of Harvard University. Concluded PDD Course Management Institute Higher Business Studies (IESE), University of Navarra [4] and the Program on International Finance Centre Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) [5] Bank of Spain and the INSEAD [6] in Fontainebleau, France. Expert in Strategic Planning Training Institute Andersen [7]

His career was always tied to family businesses in real estate and finance. He has also collaborated with several foreign companies in Spain, especially French, as Bouygues Group [8] and Michelin [9].

In 1996 access to the Special Delegation of State, Ministry of Finance and the Executive Chairman of the Free Zone Consortium of Cadiz, where he made a controversial political management culminating in his resignation in 2001 as head of the Latin American Network of Logistics and Trade (RILCO) as Chairman and founder of it.

To date pending judicial proceedings on the formation of that institution, in which Manuel Rodriguez de Castro and PSOE are at loggerheads since 2001.

After leaving the government again to engage in private activities, especially in America and Spain, related to business with Grupo Salinas in Mexico [10] and companies related to consumption sectors, telecommunications, TV and microcredit in several countries in Latin America. He is currently an independent director of the naval group TMM [http:www.grupotmm.com] and Masarc Holdings [11], an investment bank in Panama, where he lives since 2002.

In 2003 he was diagnosed with malignant cancer.