Ricardo Rosselló

Rosselló's paternal great-grandfather, Pedro Juan Rosselló Batle, immigrated in 1902 at the age of 23 from Lloseta, Mallorca, Spain.

Rosselló attended high school at Colegio Marista de Guaynabo.

He was selected to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiads.

His older brothers are Juan Óscar (b. 1971) and Luis Roberto (b. 1973).

Ricardo Antonio Rosselló Nevares (born March 7, 1979) is a former governor of Puerto Rico who served from 2017 until his resignation in 2019 after overwhelming protests related to the Telegramgate scandal.

He is the son of former governor of Puerto Rico and pediatric surgeon Pedro Rosselló.

Rosselló was born 1979 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Pedro Rosselló and Maga Nevares.

Pedro Rosselló served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001.

He published a book that depicted the accomplishments of his father's administration (1993–2001).

All copies of the limited edition print were exhausted in one day.

To diffuse the message, he allowed the material to be public domain and published it on the La Obra de Rosselló website for everyone to read.

Rosselló earned a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2001 in biomedical engineering and economics.

As a researcher in college, Rosselló focused on adult stem cell research.

He received a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan

Rosselló is a co-founder of Beijing Prosperous Biopharm, a medical research company in Beijing, China.

Rosselló claimed to have developed various drugs then later clarified that they were still in the research phase of development.

Rosselló became involved in politics during the 2008 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election when his father Pedro Rosselló lost a party primary against the eventual Governor Luis Fortuño.

Rosselló was a Hillary Clinton delegate to the 2008 nominating convention and an Obama delegate to the 2012 convention.

In 2008, he participated in Clinton's get-out-the-vote efforts for the June 1 Puerto Rico presidential primary, appearing in her final TV ad with several Democratic political leaders, including fellow statehooder Kenneth McClintock and commonwealth's Roberto Prats and José A. Hernández Mayoral.

Following this event, Rosselló became a political commentator, writing columns for El Vocero, a daily newspaper published in San Juan, covering politics, science, healthcare and economics topics.

Additionally, Rosselló appeared as a regular guest analyst in several political radio talk shows.

In 2010, Rosselló founded the political advocacy group Boricua ¡Ahora Es! to advocate for changing the current political status of Puerto Rico.

Rosselló supports Puerto Rican statehood.

In 2012, Rosselló founded Boricua ¡Ahora Es!, a political advocacy group that advocates changing Puerto Rico's current political status.

The movement featured a grass-roots educational campaign, suggesting that involvement of the international community may be necessary for the United States government to take action.

Boricua ¡Ahora Es! actively campaigned during the 2012 Puerto Rico status referendum.

Rosselló was accused by Bolivian author Lupe Andrade of plagiarizing her column Responsabilidad y democracia ("Accountability and Democracy").

He denied the claim and no legal action followed.

Since 2012, Rosselló was mentioned as a potential gubernatorial candidate for the 2016 election cycle.

In 2013, he began organizing a group of collaborators to build what he called Plan para Puerto Rico (Plan for Puerto Rico).

This plan would serve as a blueprint to deal with the economic and political problems and Puerto Rico and by being built years before a candidacy, it would represent a more complete and realistic political agenda.

In 2014, Rosselló utilized his political platform to perform several protest events against the policies of the incumbent governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla.

Following several years of political advocacy, Rosselló announced that he would seek the nomination of the New Progressive Party (PNP in Spanish) for Governor of Puerto Rico in 2016.

After winning the New Progressive Party primary, Rosselló was elected governor in the 2016 general election, defeating five other candidates.

The chat included vulgar, sexist, homophobic and misogynistic language, a discussion of the operation of Internet troll networks on social media, elitist comments, and mockery of the troubles of Puerto Ricans as they continue to recover from 2017's Hurricane Maria that caused approximately 3,000 deaths.

In one message, Rosselló's chief financial officer joked about the people who died in Hurricane Maria, and an apparent death threat made by Rosselló against Mayor of San Juan Carmen Yulín Cruz.

As a result of the leak, protests were held for several consecutive days throughout Puerto Rico demanding Rosselló's resignation.

In July 2019, Rosselló faced widespread controversy after a group chat on the Telegram app between Rosselló and his staff was made public.

An estimated 500,000 people took to Old San Juan on July 17, 2019, as part of the protests.

After first stating that he intended to complete his term as governor, Rosselló later promised to resign on August 2, which he did.