Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 1977 |
Term End1: | 1983 |
Constituency1: | Segovia |
Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
Birth Date: | 18 December 1935 |
Citizenship: | Spanish |
Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Occupation: | Politician, businessman, economist, media executive |
Spouse: | Leonor Pérez Pita (d. 2019) |
Luis Solana Madariaga (born 18 December 1935) is a Spanish businessman and politician.
Born on 18 December 1935 in Madrid,[1] he is an older brother of Javier Solana. He graduated in law at the Complutense University of Madrid, and later studied economics in London and Paris.[2] A member of the (ASU), he was jailed in 1959 by the Francoist dictatorship due to his political activities during his student years.[3]
He married, best known as 'Cuca Solana', pioneer of fashion in Spain and founder of the Pasarela Cibeles.[4]
A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),[5] he was elected member of the Congress of Deputies in the 1977 general election in representation of Segovia.[6] He was re-elected in the 1979 and 1982 general elections. In 1985 he became a member of the Spanish group of the Trilateral Commission.
He was the chairman of Telefónica from 1982 to 1989, when he was appointed as Director-General of RTVE.[7] He later became chairman of Inversiones Graminsa, S.A (1991) and member of the board of directors of Amper (2004).
He was widowed in 2019.