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Luis Abinader

Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis roˈðolfo aβinaˈðeɾ koˈɾona]; born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who has served as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020. He was the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 general elections.

Before becoming president, Abinader was the general manager of Grupo Abicor, a business consortium started by his father, José Rafael Abinader, a former senator and finance minister. Grupo Abicor includes a real estate and construction company focused mainly on the tourism industry, a concrete factory, and a private university. As revealed by the Pandora Papers, Abinader also owns several offshore companies. Abinader was proclaimed as Latin America's richest president by Bloomberg Línea in 2022.

His first 100 days in office, in a context of mitigation of the Covid-19 pandemic, were rated positively by some sectors of society such as social and business actors, who positively valued the measures adopted during the health crisis. In the international arena, he has been participating in regional forums and discussions with think tanks in the capital of the United States, such as the Council of the Americas and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In November 2020, during a high-level discussion he had with CNN columnist political strategist Geovanny Vicente at the DC Dialogues at New York University, he reviewed the achievements made in his first 100 days in office and noted that the Dominican Republic, in addition to being the fastest growing economy in Latin America, is also ready to receive investments.

Abinader was re-elected to a second term as president in the 2024 Dominican Republic general election. In his victory speech, Abinader said that the "changes that we've made are going to be irreversible", and that the "best is yet to come".

Abinader was born in Santo Domingo on 12 July 1967. His parents were born in Santiago in the northern region of the country: his mother, Rosa Ramona Sulina "Sula" Corona Caba, is from a family of mostly colonial Spanish origin; most of her ancestors hail from San José de las Matas. His father was José Rafael Abinader, a businessman and political leader whose family were Christian Maronites from Lebanon. His paternal grandfather was José S. Abinader, a Lebanese immigrant from Baskinta, Mount Lebanon, who arrived to the country in 1898 and settled in the town of Tamboril (located near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros). His paternal grandmother, Esther Wassaf Khoury Sahdalá, was born in the Dominican Republic to Wassaf Khoury Hanna and his wife Thell Sahdalá, both Lebanese Maronite Christians.

Abinader did his secondary education at the Colegio Loyola (Spanish: Loyola High School); He graduated in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (Spanish: Santo Domingo Institute of Technology). He did postgraduate studies in project management at Hult International Business School (at the time named Arthur D. Little Institute) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He was elected vice president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in its 2005 National Convention.

He was the Executive Chairman of ABICOR Group, which has developed and operated major tourism projects in the Dominican Republic. This family group spearheaded the business plan that led to the establishment of Cementos Santo Domingo, where he served as Vice President.

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