page_title: Luis Fortuño
section_title: Post-gubernatorial life
hierarchical_section_title: Luis Fortuño / Post-gubernatorial life
caption_attribution_description: English: Luis Fortuno speaking at CPAC 2014 in Washington, DC.
context_page_description: Luis Guillermo Fortuño Burset is a Puerto Rican politician who served as Governor of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America, and as president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico until 2013, served as president of the Council of State Governments during 2012 and served as president of the Southern Governors Association from 2011 to 2012. On 26 June 2011 he announced his plans to run for reelection. He was defeated in the 2012 elections by Alejandro Garcia Padilla.
  In the 1990s, Fortuño served as the first secretary of economic development and commerce, as the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, and as the president of the Puerto Rico Hotel Development Corporation during the administration of Pedro Rosselló.
  In 2003 Fortuño won the 2004 PNP nomination for resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in primaries against former governor Carlos Romero Barceló, former Senate president Charlie Rodriguez and then-senator Miriam Ramírez de Ferrer. He was then elected resident commissioner in 2004, defeating Senator Roberto Prats.
context_section_description: On 9 January 2013, Fortuño presented his resignation to the presidency of the New Progressive Party, and accepted the party directorate's request that he serve as the acting president until 3 February, when Pierluisi was selected to succeed Fortuño.
  Fortuño and former first lady Lucé Vela moved to Washington, D.C., in early 2013, where he is a partner with the Steptoe & Johnson law firm in its Corporate, Securities & Finance Group and the Government Affairs and Public Policy Group. He is also involved in Steptoe's Latin American practice.
  He is also a frequent speaker in forums related to business and conservative causes.
caption: Luis Fortuno speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.
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