Topic: Luis Fortuno

Luis Guillermo Fortuño-Burset (born October 31, 1960 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is the ninth and current Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. Fortuño is also the president of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (NPP) and a member of the United States Republican Party.

In the 1990s, Fortuño served as Puerto Rico's first Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce, as the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company and as the President of Puerto Rico's Hotel Development Corporation (HDC) during the administration of Governor Pedro Rosselló.

In 2003 Fortuño won the 2004 NPP nomination for Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in primaries against former Governor Carlos Romero Barceló and former Senate President Charlie Rodriguez. He was then elected Resident Commissioner in 2004, defeating Senator Roberto Prats. Congressman Fortuño represented Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2008, and served as Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Conference and as Ranking Member of the newly-created United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Insular Affairs.