Manuel Olivencia

Manuel Olivencia Ruiz (25 July 1929 – 1 January 2018) was a Spanish lawyer with a career as a professor, economist, and diplomat. He worked at the University of Seville and organized Seville Expo '92. He was born in Ronda, Spain. He won the Creu de Sant Jordi Award in 1990. He was Undersecretary of Education and Science during the first Transition government, advisor to the Bank of Spain, and a member of the board of RTVE.
In 1960 he became a professor of law at the University of Seville. One of his students was future Prime Minister Felipe González. There, he was dean of the school of law from 1968 to 1971 and dean of the school of economics from 1971 to 1975.
Olivencia died of respiratory failure complicated from a fall in Seville, Spain on 1 January 2018 at the age of 88.