Luis Abinader

Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona (; born 12 July 1967) is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who is serving as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020. He served as the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016 and 2020 general elections. Before becoming president, Abinader was the general manager of Grupo Abicor, his family's business consortium, which was started by his father, a former senator and finance minister. The conglomerate includes a real estate and construction company focused mainly on the tourism industry, a cement factory and a private university. He also owns several offshore companies, as revealed by Pandora Papers. Prior becoming President, he filed a public declaration of assets stating that he had a net worth of over 76 million US dollars. Abinader was proclaimed by Bloomberg as Latin America's richest president. Early life Abinader was born in Santo Domingo on 12 July 1967. His parents are from the Cibao region: his mother, Rosa Ramona Sulina "Sula" Corona Caba, is of colonial Canary Islander ancestry and from the province of La Vega; his father was the businessman and political leader José Rafael Abinader, of Lebanese descent and a native of the Santiago Province. 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).