Nicolás Franco y Pascual de Pobil (born 22 October 1937) is a Spanish naturalist and economist who was President of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation between 1993 and 1999.
Nicolás Franco was born in 1937 in Rome during his father's time as ambassador of Spain in Italy.
His mother was María Isabel Pascual de Pobil y Ravello.
[1] He received his doctorate in Economics from the Centre d'Etudes Industrielles of Geneva in 1959.
[2] After many years of his hunting exploits travelling around the world, he was elected President of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) in 1993, where he served for most of the 1990s.