Jean Rénald Clérismé (November 7, 1937 – October 29, 2013) was a

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

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and former

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. He served as the

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of Haiti from 9 June 2006 to 2008. His widow is Dr. Linda Marc. Clérsimé began his career as a Roman Catholic priest. He was ambassador of Haiti to the

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(WTO), the International Trade Center (ITC), the

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Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2001 to 2003. Clérsimé completed his B.A. in France, 1967; received a M.A. in

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, from

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, in 1975, and also a M.A. in Philosophy from

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in 1993. In addition he received his Ph.D., in Anthropology from Yale in 1996 as a

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Scholar. The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Migration and Relations of Production in the Dominican Coffee Economy: Haitian Workers on El Fondo Coffee Plantations." He was also the author of other scholarly works on Haitian society.

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2005 Wayne State University Press Release
1937 births 2013 deaths Foreign ministers of Haiti Permanent Representatives of Haiti to the World Trade Organization Haitian diplomats Haitian Roman Catholic priests New York University alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Laicized Roman Catholic priests {{Haiti-politician-stub