Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation. He is a native of Villa Juana, Distrito Nacional and lived for much of his childhood and early adulthood in New York City. Leonel Fernández is the President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations and a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.