16:15 - 16:45
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis is President of the Fondation Connaissance et Liberté - FOKAL (www.fokal.org) and was Prime Minister of Haiti in 2008-2009. She teaches the history of Caribbean societies and 19th-century Haiti at Quisqueya University. A member of the editorial team of the journal Chemins Critiques, she publishes articles and reviews. She has also published in the journal IntranQu'îllités (2014), as well as in English, in Greening in the Red Zone, Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening (Springer, 2014), and The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the Predicament of Narrative (Liverpool University Press, 2016). Michèle Pierre-Louis has received numerous awards and honors, including an honorary doctorate from Saint Michael College, Vermont in 2004, and a second from the University of San Francisco in 2014. Resident-Fellow at Harvard University in 2010, she is a member of the International Commission against the Death Penalty created in 2010 by President Zapatero, and a member of the High Council for Mediation created in 2017 by Antonio Guteres, Secretary General of the United Nations.
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