César Alierta
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César Alierta in 2013
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César Alierta Izuel May 5, 1945 Zaragoza, Spain |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Employer | Telefónica S.A. |
| Spouse(s) | Ana Cristina Placer († 2015) |
| Parent(s) | Cesáreo Alierta Juana Izuel Labad |
César Alierta Izuel (born May 5, 1945) is a Spanish businessman, who has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Telefónica S.A. since July 26, 2000 where he guided the company through a significant Latin American expansion. Mr. Alierta earned a bachelor's degree in Law at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) in 1967. Three years after his degree, he earned a master's degree in Business Administration at Columbia University in New York, United States.
Mr. Alierta holds a Law degree from the University of Zaragoza and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
In September 2005, he received the Global Spanish Entrepreneur award in New York, by the Spain-US Chamber of Commerce. This distinction is an acknowledgement for his job as president of Telefónica, leading the firm to entry into the Dow Jones Global Titans 50 index. In fact, Telefónica is the first Spanish company -and one of the very few in Europe to be part of that index, made of the world's 50 most successful, global and largest companies.
In April 2008, he was named president of the Social Council of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spanish main open university, with over 100,000 students.
In September 2009 he led one of the main global strategic alliances, putting together Telefónica with Chinese firm China Unicom[1]. Both companies agreed to invest in each other an amount of a billion dollars. The most important part of the cooperation agreement involves research, development and innovation, as well as sharing information on knowledge management and new technologies. This alliance allowed Telefónica to strengthen its position as market leader. It also expanded its client base to over 550 million world-wide, including the clients of its Chinese partner.
In 2009 he was awarded the Tiepolo prize. This award is given by the Madrid-Italy Chamber of Commerce and acknowledges the role of Telefónica as one of the leading Spanish global companies.
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