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Haiti - Elections : Who is Garaudy Laguerre ?
22/09/2010 15:13:30

During the electoral campaign, HaitiLibre will publish texts, portraits and biographies of each participant in the presidential race so that the voters can better know those which aspire to the presidency of Haiti. [The texts reproduced are those provided by candidates, parties or appearing on their official website and are not texts written by HaïtiLibre].

Today we invite you to discover the candidate Garaudy Laguerre (« Mouvman Wozo »)

Garaudy Laguerre :
Mr. Laguerre was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May 30, 1963. He studied both in Haiti and the United States. He has a Masters degree in International Relations from Long Island University and a Bachelor of Law from Faculte de Droit et des Sciences Économiques d'Haiti. He is currently the president of the board of Directors of the Institute for Political and Social Studies (ISPOS). He has led ISPOS for ten years as Executive Director. He is now the Leader of the newly found political movement “Nou Se WOZO” which focuses on Women and youth as their main social base.

During his ten year of leadership, ISPOS has trained close to ten thousand political cadres, mainly youth and women, led many dialogue processes; worked with the U.N. and different countries such as Norway; Sweden, the U.S., Canada etc.

ISPOS, under the leadership of Mr. Laguerre was responsible for the electoral code of conduct in 2005 and the pact of governability. More importantly, Mr. Laguerre conceived and saw over the formation of the convention of political parties in 2006.
Mr. Laguerre has worked as a diplomat representing Haiti at permanent mission of Haiti to the U.N. (1991-1993)
He was a member a special committee against apartheid and as such, has been an envoy for the U.N.G.S. to South Africa.

Mr. Laguerre, has led a dialogue process between Haiti and the Dominican Republic supported by the Norwegian government. He has been a professor of International Relations at INAGHE University, and still lectures from time to time.
Mr Laguerre has three children.

HaitiLibre invites the candidates approved to forward to us for publication, their portrait or biography as soon as possible.

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