Editing Rodrigo Rato (section)

==Early life and education==
Rodrigo de Rato was born in [[Madrid]], into a rich [[Textiles|textile]]-owning family from [[Asturias]]. He is the great-grandson of politician [[Faustino Rodríguez-San Pedro y Díaz-Argüelles]] and the son of businessman [[Ramón Rato]] who was jailed in 1967 for tax evasion to Switzerland through his Banco Siero,<ref>El único que dijo 'no' a la tarjeta black, Francisco Verdú. [http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2015/03/01/54f19d74ca474116028b456e.html]. [[El Mundo (España)|El Mundo]], J. CASTRO VILLACAÑAS,  1 March 2015. Consultado el 9 de mayo de 2018.</ref> and of Aurora Figaredo Sela. Both the Rato and the Figaredo sides of his family owned industries and nobility titles.<ref>[http://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=199403 «Fallece Aurora Figaredo, la madre de Rodrigo Rato, a los 90 años.»] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120629013401/http://archivo.lavozdeasturias.es/html/199403.html |date=29 June 2012 }} ''La Voz de Asturias''.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080120181651/http://tematico.asturias.es/cultura/ridea/fondosFigaredo.html Fondos Familia Figaredo (Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos).]</ref>  Rato attended a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school [[Our Lady of Remembrance College, Madrid]] before studying law in the [[Complutense University of Madrid|Complutense University]].

In 1971 Rato went to [[University of California, Berkeley]], and received an [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] in 1974 from the [[Haas School of Business]].