Eduardo Bhatia
| Eduardo Bhatia | |
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 Minority Leader of the Senate of Puerto Rico |
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Assumed office January 2, 2017 |
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| Governor | Ricardo Rosselló |
| Preceded by | Larry Seilhamer |
| 15th President of the Puerto Rico Senate | |
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In office January 14, 2013 – January 2, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Rivera Schatz |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Rivera Schatz |
| Minority Whip of the Puerto Rico Senate | |
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In office January 12, 2009 – January 14, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Sila María González |
| Succeeded by | Carmelo Ríos Santiago |
| Director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration | |
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In office 2005–2008 |
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| Governor | Aníbal Acevedo Vilá |
| Preceded by | Mari Carmen Aponte |
| Succeeded by | Flavio Cumpiano |
| Personal details | |
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Eduardo Bhatia Gautier May 16, 1964 San Salvador, El Salvador |
| Political party | Popular Democratic |
| Other political affiliations |
Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Isabel Cristina Fernández |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Stanford University |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Eduardo Bhatia Gautier (born in May 16, 1964) is an attorney-at-law and the former 15th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. Bhatia is also a former executive director of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration and a Fulbright scholar.
Eduardo Bhatia was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 16, 1964. Bhatia’s father, the economist and retired professor Mohinder Bhatia, came to Puerto Rico in 1957 as an assistant to a Syracuse University professor who had been in India on a one-year sabbatical. He remained in Puerto Rico and married Carmen Gautier Mayoral in 1961, a political science professor at the University of Puerto Rico and niece-in-law of Felisa Rincón de Gautier. Eduardo Bhatia is one of three siblings. His brother, Andrés Bhatia, is a practicing oncologist in Gainesville, Florida, and his sister, Lisa Bhatia, is an assistant U.S. attorney at the San Juan District office of the U.S. Attorney.
Bhatia attended Princeton University, obtaining his Bachelor's degree in Government and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1986. During Bhatia's university years, he was a member of the Princeton Democratic Students Association and the Student Council, actively participating in the student movement against Apartheid in South Africa. In May 1986, Bhatia was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study law, economics and politics in Santiago, Chile for one year.
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