Luis Abinader | |
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Born |
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona 12 July 1967 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
Alma mater | Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo |
Occupation | Politician, economist, businessman |
Known for | candidacy for President of the Dominican Republic |
Political party |
Dominican Revolutionary Party (Before 2014) Modern Revolutionary Party (2014–present) |
Spouse(s) | Raquel Arbaje Soni |
Children | Esther Patricia Graciela Lucía Adriana Margarita |
Parents |
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Website | www |
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (born 12 July 1967) is a politician, economist, and businessman from the Dominican Republic.
He is the presidential candidate of the Dominican Humanist Party and the Modern Revolutionary Party for the next general elections on 15 May 2016.
Previously, he was vice presidential candidate of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in the previous election in May 2012 by the Dominican Revolutionary Party and in 2005 was pre candidate for senator from the province of Santo Domingo.
Abinader was born 12 July 1967, to José Rafael Abinader Wasaf, politician and entrepreneur of Lebanese origin, and Rosa Sula Corona Caba, of Canarian colonial stock. He married to Raquel Arbaje Soni —the daughter of businesspersons Elías Arbaje Farah and Margarita Soni, both of Lebanese descent— and had 3 daughters: Esther Patricia, Graciela Lucía, and Adriana Margarita Abinader Arbaje.
Abinader did his secondary education at the Colegio Loyola (Spanish: Loyola High School), now Instituto Politécnico Loyola; 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 the Arthur D. Little Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also studied Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering at Harvard University and Advanced Management at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
• Milcíades H. Núñez, fellow of the Dominican Institute of Genealogy • Evelyn Irrizarri (El Caribe) • Mario J. Jáquez (Dominican Institute of Genealogy)
He was elected vice president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party in its 2005 National Convention.
He is currently Executive Chairman of ABICOR Group, which has developed and operated major tourism projects in the country. This family group led the business plan of what is today the company Cementos Santo Domingo, of which he is Vice President.