Background
Eder Ortíz Ortíz was born on April 18, 1969.
Eder Ortíz Ortíz was born on April 18, 1969.
University of Puerto Rico.
He is the oldest of three siblings. Ortíz obtained his Bachelor"s degree in Accounting from the University of Puerto Rico. He then obtained his Juris doctor from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico Law School in 1998.
In 2005 he received a certificate in Management from Loyola University Chicago.
Ortíz has worked as an executive in several multinational enterprises in Central America, United States, and the Caribbean. He was a legislative advisor for the Joint Commission on the Comptroller"s Special Reports, and the Commission of Public Integrity.
Ortíz has also worked as a private attorney until December 2008. Ortíz was sworn in as Senator At-large after the 2008 general elections according to the Law of Minority.
On December 20, 2011, Ortíz officially announced his resignation from the Senate, effective on December 31, 2011.
He is waiting to be confirmed as Electoral Commissioner for the Popular Democratic Party.
He has served as Speaker for his party in the Commissions of Economic Development and Planning, Commerce and Cooperativism, Banking, Consumer Affairs, and others
He served as a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 2008 to 2011.