Leonel Fernández

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Former president of the Dominican Republic

PoliticiansBorn 1953 · age 72

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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna, is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU-LAC Foundation.

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Leonel Fernández in 1996

Fernández swears in his first Cabinet of government 2004-2008

Fernández in 2005

George W. Bush welcomes Fernandez to the White House

Fernández Reyna with Brazil's President Lula da Silva, First Ladies Marisa Letícia Rocco and Margarita Cedeño

Barack and Michelle Obama during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in New York with Fernández and Margarita Cedeño de Fernández

Awards 12

2013Order of José Cecilio del Valle

2013honorary doctor of Paris 8 University

2011Order of the Quetzal

1999Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

1999honorary doctor of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Order of Christopher Columbus

Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella

Order of Brilliant Jade

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Order of the Liberator General San Martín

Order of José Martí

Order of Independence

In their orbit 2

SpouseMargarita Cedeño

ChildOmar Fernández

Connected to Leonel 6

Rafael TrujilloAlso won Order of Christopher Columbus

Fernando LugoAlso won Order of Brilliant Jade

Jacques RoggeAlso won Order of the Quetzal

Ollanta HumalaAlso won Order of Independence

Licio GelliAlso won Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Homi K. BhabhaAlso won honorary doctor of Paris 8 University