FOKAL - President and Founder, Prime Minister of Haiti 2008-2009
As an economist, Michèle Pierre-Louis has extensive managerial experience in the public and private sectors.
As an educator, she has been a trainer in a national literacy campaign in Haiti and is today a professor at Université Quisqueya. She was a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School in 2010.
In 1995 she created FOKAL, which she directed for thirteen years. From 2008 to 2009, she served as Prime Minister of Haiti. Upon leaving office she resumed work at FOKAL as President, coordinating post-earthquake projects and leading a network of smallholder farmers’ organizations for advancement of their rights and means of livelihood.