Juan Echevarría Puig, president of Mutua Universal between 2004 and 2022 and president of Nissan Motor Ibérica between 1982 and 2000, died on Tuesday at the age of 101, according to the entity cooperating with Social Security. Echevarría was the former father-in-law For the president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, as well as the grandfather of his children. The newspaper reported that the Barcelona leader was deeply affected by his loss. sports.
Laporta got married With his daughter Constanza Echevarria in the 1980s, with whom he had three children. However, in 2012 they separated. Despite the news affecting Laporta and his family, the Barcelona president attended the league match between his club and Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.
Juan Echevarria Puig has been a part of Joan Laporta’s life and he and his family remain extremely important to the president. In this sense, Laporta not only maintained his relationship with his ex-wife Constanza and the mother of his children, but… And also with the son of the former president of Nissan.
Alejandro Echevarria, another son of Juan, He is one of Laporta’s most trusted people today. Although he does not have a specific position in the Blaugrana club, he has a voice in its important decisions, according to the aforementioned newspaper.
Juan Echevarría Puig was also one of the founders of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), and the Catalan businessman, born in Barcelona, was also responsible for the entity Fecsa and Cable i Televisió de Catalunya. He also served as Vice President of Endesa and the Global Tracking Center in Barcelona. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Port of Barcelona, among other positions.
In 2004, he assumed the presidency of Mutua Universal, of which he had been a member of the board of directors since 1987, and In 2023, he was appointed honorary president of the entity. Who expressed his “deepest condolences to his entire family and loved ones.” Among other awards, in the same year he received the Medal of Honor for the Commercial Profession from the employers’ association Foment del Treball.
Likewise, Echeverría was a doctor in Law from the University of Barcelona, He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Madrid and a diploma in Industrial Relations from the University of Massachusetts (USA).
He has been closely associated with the university world for decades, holding chairs of sociology at the Faculties of Law and Economic Sciences at the University of Barcelona, As founder and director of the Colegio Mayor San Jorge of the aforementioned university, And as the first president of the Social Council of Pompeu Fabra University.