His Excellency Mr. Luis Abinader was born on July 12, 1967. Mr. Abinader studied high school at Colegio Loyola and obtained a degree in Economics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC); he completed his postgraduate studies in Project Management at the Arthur D. Little Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. He also studied Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering at Harvard University and Advanced Management at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

He was elected Vice President of the Dominican Revolutionary Party at the 2005 National Convention. With extensive experience in the tourism sector, he served as Executive President of the ABICOR Group, which has developed and operated important tourism projects in the Dominican Republic.

Luis Abinader was elected presidential candidate at the PRM convention held on April 26, 2015. His candidacy was elected with more than 70% of the votes. On July 5, 2020, he won the Presidency of the Dominican Republic with the support of 52.52% of the votes.