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Pedro Rivero, former president of Liberbank and of the former electricity employers' association Unesa, has died.

He was elected president of Unesa on 18 April 2006, while four years later he took on the non-executive presidency of the bank Liberbank.

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Pedro Rivero, former president of Liberbank and of the former electricity employers' association Unesa, has died.

Pedro Rivero Torre, former president of Spanish electricity association Unesa and non-executive chairman of Liberbank, has died at 87. He was elected president of Unesa on 18 April 2006 and took on the non-executive chairmanship of Liberbank four years later. Rivero Torre was also a professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the Complutense University of Madrid and a member of the Royal Academy of Doctors.

The CEOE and the University of Castilla-La Mancha have paid tribute to him, describing him as a prominent figure in Spanish business and energy.

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