Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis was Prime Minister of Haiti in 2008-2009. Upon leaving office she returned to the foundation she created in 1995, Fondation Connaissance et Liberté – FOKAL. She is FOKAL’s President, coordinating special projects in Sustainable Development and Higher Education. Pierre-Louis is also professor at Université Quisqueya, Haiti. She holds a master’s degree in economics from Queens College, NY, and two Doctorate Honoris Causa in Humanities from St Michael College and the University of San Francisco. In 2010, she was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

Member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty and of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, Pierre-Louis is a founding member of the Haitian/Caribbean Review “Chemins Critiques” in which she has published many articles on politics, gender issues, economics, arts & culture. She has contributed to several books and reviews about Haiti. She is Board Chair of Le Centre d’art, of Centre de Promotion de la Femme Ouvrière (CPFO), and of the Caribbean Culture Fund.

Pierre-Louis is a recipient of the French Legion of Honor, 2023; the 2020 Women Political Leaders Trailblazer Award, Reykjavik Global Forum of Women’s Leaders, the Order of Leopold, Belgium, 2018, and the Gran Oficial Ordem de Rio Branco (Brazil) in 2010. In 2021, she was among Apolitical’ s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy.

She joined the Global Commission on Drug Policy in 2021.