Milton Teófilo Morrison Ramírez(born August 14, 1975) is a Dominican

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, writer, businessperson,Los Morrinson
/ref> Dominican politician and a 2020 Dominican Republic presidential candidate. Milton was born and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to

Mateo Morrison Mateo Morrison Fortunato (born 14 April 1946) is a Dominican writer, lawyer, poet and essayist. He won the ''Premio Nacional de Literatura'' of the Dominican Republic in 2010. Biography Morrison is the son of Egbert Morrison, a native of Jamaica, ...

, an award-winning poet, and Cristobalina Ramírez, a librarian. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in

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from the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology, and his MS from the University of Bradford. In 2017, he founded a political party in the Dominican Republic named País Posible, which has over 128.000 active members as of 2019.

Biography

Early life and education

Milton Teófilo Morrison Ramirez was born on August 14, 1975. His father is

, an award-winning poet, whose parents were English- Jamaican migrants. His mother is Cristobalina Ramírez, a

Dominican-American Dominican Americans ( es, domínico-americanos, ) are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of Dominican descent or to someone who has migrated to the United St ...

librarian. Morrison grew up in an empoverished area of the Dominican Republic, ''Los Tres Brazos'' where Milton then completed his secondary education at the ''Escuela Nueva'' y ''Mahatma Gandhi'' in the area. In 1992, at only 19 years old, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in

, where he graduated with

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honors. In 1999, he migrated to England to pursue his Master of Science degree in Development and Project Planning at the University of Bradford. In 2002, he obtained a postbaccalaureate degree in International Business from the University of Florida.

Career

Morrison started his professional career in 1998, that same year he founded with his brother Nelson Morrison the engineering company Morrison Ingenieros. In 2000, Morrison joined the United Nations' program Millennium Development Goals. That same year, he is named the director of renewable energies at the Ministerio de Industria y Comercio in the Dominican Republic. In 2001, he started his career as a professor at his alma mater, Santo Domingo Institute of Technology teaching

. In 2002, he joined the Fifth Episcopal Conference of Latin America representing the Dominican Republic in New Delhi, India. In 2006, he was named Executive VP at the Asociación Dominicana de la Industria Eléctrica (ADIE), where he served until 2017.

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