Ramón Fonseca Mora
| Ramón Fonseca Mora | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
14 July 1952 Panama |
| Residence | Panama City, Panama |
| Nationality | Panamanian |
| Alma mater |
University of Panama London School of Economics |
| Occupation | novelist and lawyer |
| Known for | co-founder of Mossack Fonseca |
| Website | www.ramonfonsecamora.com |
Ramón Fonseca Mora (born 14 July 1952) is a Panamanian novelist and lawyer, the co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm based in Panama with more than 40 offices worldwide. He was minister-counselor of Juan Carlos Varela, and president of the Panameñista Party until he was dismissed in March 2016, due to the Brazilian Operation Car Wash.[1]
Early life
Fonseca was born on 14 July 1952 in Panama,[2][3] and studied law and political science at the University of Panama and the London School of Economics. As a young man, "he hoped to save the world".[4]
As a young man Fonseca reportedly considered joining the priesthood.[5] Also, according to the ICIJ he revealed in a 2008 television interview that, "I didn't save anything, I didn't make any change. I decided then, as I was a little more mature, to dedicate myself to my profession, to have a family, to get married and have a regular life … As one gets older, you turn more materialistic."[6]
Career
In 1977, he and Jürgen Mossack founded Mossack Fonseca.[7] He is also a member of the Panameñista Party.[8]
Fonseca is also an award-winning novelist.[4] He has written four novels, along with plays and short stories. He has been awarded the Ricardo Miró Prize, the national literary award in Panama, twice, for novels Dance of the Butterflies (1994) and Dream City (1998).[9]
Personal life
As of April 2016 his son, Eduardo Fonseca Ward, is in the Panamanian foreign service and the consul to Dubai.[10]
Works
- 1976, Las cortes internacionales de justicia
- 1977, Reflexiones de derecho judicial
- 1985, Compañías panameñas
- 1988, Panamá, un viejo lugar bajo el sol
- 1998, Soñar con la ciudad
- 1994, La danza de las mariposas
- 1996, La ventana abierta
- 1995, La isla de las iguanas
- 2000, 4 mujeres vestidas de negro
- 2007, El desenterrador
- 2009, Ojitos de ángel
- 2012, Míster Politicus
References
- ↑ (Spanish) Ministro consejero Fonseca Mora se va de licencia sur panamaamerica.com, 11 March 2016
- ↑ Nicanor Alvarado. "Ramón Fonseca Mora: "Vengo a contar mi verdad"". Laestrella.com.pa. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- ↑ "Ramón Fonseca Mora". Oocities.org. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- 1 2 "Panamanian Law Firm Is Gatekeeper To Vast Flow of Murky Offshore Secrets · ICIJ". Panamapapers.icij.org. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- ↑ "A torrential leak | The Economist". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2016-09-09.
- ↑ "Law firm director at centre of Panama Papers is bestselling novelist". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ↑ Andrew Buncombe (2016-03-04). "Panama Papers: Jurgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca – the lawyers whose firm is at the centre of global controversy | Americas | News". The Independent. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
- ↑ http://www.oocities.org/athens/olympus/9427/fonseca.html. Retrieved 2016-04-04. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Obras – Ramón Fonseca Mora". www.ramonfonsecamora.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
- ↑ "Mossack & Fonseca deeply entrenched in Foreign Service". April 8, 2016.
