Founder

Francisco Corell was born in Valencia on 18 November 1921. He attended primary and secondary school at the Jesuit School in Valencia and later enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in Valencia and the Faculty of Law in Deusto.

From 1982 to 1990 he was President of the International Road Transport Association (A.S.T.I.C.) and Honorary President from 1990, when he had to resign when he was appointed President of the Geneva-based International Road Transport Union (I.R.U.), the world's highest representative body for road transport.

From 1986 to 1990 he was an adviser to the Economic and Social Committee (E.S.C.) of the European Union in Brussels.

Francisco Corell Ayora was a defender of the transport sector and its qualitative improvements. As a tireless promoter of business associations, in the 1960s he held representative positions in the National Transport and Communications Union, and in the 1970s he was President of the National Union of Employers until the disappearance of this Union, to give way to the new stage of democratic associations.

1977-1986

From 1977 to 1986 he was President of the Valencian Federation of Transport Entrepreneurs, of which he had also been a founder, and was later elected Honorary President.

1978-1982

From 1978 to 1982 he was President of the Federación Nacional de Transportes de Mercancías (F.N.T.M.) of which he had been the promoter and founder, together with other businessmen in the sector.

1979-1986

Between 1979 and 1986 he was a Director of the Institute of Transport and Communications Studies, a body under the then Ministry of Public Works and Transport.