Eduardo Parra Murga

Eduardo Parra born July 25, 1940, is a Spanish advertising executive and writer, author of several specialized dictionaries.
Biography
Son of diplomats, he studied with the Capuchin friars (Navarra) and the Jesuits (Málaga). When his father was appointed chargé d'affaires in Portugal, he moved to Estoril where he spent his teenage years. After attending the universities of Madrid and Salamanca, he dropped his studies in Chemical Sciences to start working as a junior account executive in advertising. His career at the accounts department would progressively lead him from LPE Morrison to Norman Craig & Kummel and, finally, to J. Walter Thompson as account management supervisor. For twenty years he handled a great number of accounts (Bacardi, Colgate-Palmolive, De Beers, Eastman Kodak, Kraft Foods, Rolex, 7 Up and Unilever, to name a few) until leaving the agency business in his forties to found Carivan, an audiovisual production company specialized in industrial and training videos - mainly for banks and financial institutions. When the Internet reached Spain, Eduardo became an “early adopter” going as far as writing a pioneering dictionary on the subject titled Diccionario de Internet that was published in 1996. He is now retired in Almoçageme, a small Portuguese village close to the sea, where he takes long walks looking for mushrooms - one of his hobbies.

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