Emilio Zabaneh is a graduated from the University of Southern Louisiana in Lafayette, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Behavioural Sciences in 1994. He is a self-employed businessman in land reclamation and construction for the past twenty-five years. His vision is to work to drive down the cost of the acquisition of power supplied to Belizean consumers and to lobby to get every household, where possible, connected to the national power grid. He is described as a man of service to local community and nation through philanthropy and political leadership.