Education
A cum laude graduate of Harvard College and the recipient of an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, Pierluisi had been a leader, along with future Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño and Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock, of the Puerto Rico Statehood Students Association in the early 1980s, the brother of one-time Puerto Rico Attorney General Pedro Pierluisi, currently Puerto Rico"s non-voting Resident Commissioner in the United States House of Representatives and the son of the longest-serving Secretary of Puerto Rico"s Housing Department, Jorge Pierluisi, who served under Government. Carlos Romero Barceló from 1977 to 1985.