Eduardo Gavarret

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Eduardo Gavarret (born 11 May 1956) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2008.

Gavarret was born in Minas, Uruguay. From 1975 to 1977, he was a Mormon missionary in Paraguay and Uruguay. He was trained in management at the Escuela Superior de Administracion Empresas and in 2000 received an MBA degree from INPG-MBA in Brazil. Prior to his becoming a general authority, he was employed as the general manager of a pharmaceutical company in Peru.

Gavarret has previously been a bishop and a stake president in the LDS Church. From 1997 to 2000, he was an area seventy in the church's Brazil Area and was a member of the Fourth Quorum of the Seventy. From 2003 to 2006, he was president of the Paraguay Asunción Mission of the church. At the April 2008 general conference of the church, Gavarret was accepted by the membership as a member of the church's First Quorum of the Seventy, a full-time ecclesiastical position.

Gavarret is married to Norma Beatriz Gorgoroso and is the father of three children.

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