The prestigious Forbes magazine has published a new edition of the list of ‘The 100 richest Spaniards’. A ranking that compiles the main fortunes in the country and this year leaves a very revealing fact: the combined assets of all of them rise by 27.7% to reach 250.4 billion euros.
Amancio Ortega It continues to lead this classification, for the tenth consecutive year, with a fortune that has grown by 46.9% compared to 2023 and marks a profit record of 120,000 million euros. In second place is his daughter, Sandra Ortega with a total of 10.4 billion euros, followed by the president of Ferrovial, Rafael del Pino and Calvo-Sotelo, with 7.1 billion euros.
The Forbes magazine list also indicates that the Community of Madrid It is the region of Spain with the highest number of fortunes, with a total of 30. It is closely followed by Catalonia, with 27. However, Galicia It continues to be the community that has the greatest wealth, with a total of 139,025 million euros, thanks to what is described as the ‘Ortega effect’.
The fortune of Jesús Núñez Velázquez
For its part, Castilla y León does not have any fortune on the Forbes list. However, one of the richest men in Spain comes from the region. Specifically, from the province of Segovia. It is about Jesus Nunez Velazquezwho occupies 23rd place of the ranking with a total of 1.5 billion euros.
Jesús Núñez Velázquez is the owner, together with his family, of Gesbolsa Investmentsa Variable Capital Investment Company (SICAV) registered with the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). The current assets of the company are located at 1,490 million eurosa figure higher than that of 2023, when it amounted to 1,200.
Most of the wealth of this Castilian-Leonese family comes from the sale of the Alfonso X El Sabio University in 2019. Jesús Núñez Velázquez founded this educational center in 1993, considered the first private university in Spain not linked to the Catholic Church and which, today, is responsible for the training of more than 14,000 students.
Furthermore, the richest man in Castilla y León runs the Veterinary Clinical Hospitalthe University Dental Clinic and the Dental Center for Innovation and Advanced Specialties of the Alfonso X El Sabio University.
The richest family in Castilla y León is a native of Pecharromán, a small Segovian town of just 10 inhabitantsaccording to data from the INE, belonging to the municipality of Valtiendas. However, the businessman moved to Madrid to pursue his university studies in Teaching and Educational Sciences and it was in the capital where he began to forge his business empire.
Throughout his career, Jesús Núñez Velázquez has received the Gold Medal for Merit for Work and other recognitions in the private educational sector, to which he is closely linked with his family. And through Efusa, Cedasa and Comosa, three of their companies, they control two private schools: Monfort, in Loeches (Madrid) and Greenwich, in La Moraleja (Madrid).
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