Alejandro Mesonero

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Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos Aguilar (born in Madrid, 1968) is a Spanish car designer. He is currently appointed Design director at the Spanish carmaker SEAT and Cupra division, subsidiaries of the VW Group. He will rejoin Renault again in October 2020.

Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos, born in Madrid in 1968, is the son of the engineer José Luis Mesonero-Romanos Sánchez-Pol and Sonsoles Aguilar Barbadillo. He is the youngest of seven siblings and great-great-grandson of the prose writer and one of the major figures of literary costumbrismo in Spain Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (1803–1882). From an early age he became interested in the world of the automobile.

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Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos Aguilar (born in Madrid, 1968) is a Spanish car designer. He is currently appointed Design director at the Spanish carmaker SEAT and Cupra division, subsidiaries of the VW Group. He will rejoin Renault again in October 2020.

Alejandro Mesonero-Romanos, born in Madrid in 1968, is the son of the engineer José Luis Mesonero-Romanos Sánchez-Pol and Sonsoles Aguilar Barbadillo. He is the youngest of seven siblings and great-great-grandson of the prose writer and one of the major figures of literary costumbrismo in Spain Ramón de Mesonero Romanos (1803–1882). From an early age he became interested in the world of the automobile.

After finishing high school, he moved to Barcelona to study at the ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering, after which he worked for a year in the now-defunct Associated Designers design studio, also in Barcelona. His first work experience in the automotive field was at Carrocerías Ayats in Arbúcies, Girona, specialized in luxury coaches. Having been offered a scholarship from the English government, he moved to London to study for a master's degree in Automotive Design at the Royal College of Art.

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