Haitian diplomat Luc Garvey Jean-Pierre yesterday assumed the leadership of the Mission of the Embassy of Haiti in the Dominican Republic following the departure of former Ambassador Smith Augustin, who in February of this year was called to return to Port-au-Prince to the central services of the Haitian Foreign Ministry.
The newly appointed Garvey Jean-Pierre arrived in the Dominican Republic to perform his duties as charge d’affaires of the Republic of Haiti on Dominican soil: develop economic and investment relations between the two countries, refers to a note from the embassy.
Garvey Jean-Pierre He is a career diplomat, specialist in Caribbean cooperation and international relations.
According to a review by the embassy, Garvey Jean-Pierre trained as a graduate in Social Sciences and Business Administration at the Escuela Normal Superior de Haiti (ENS) and the National Institute of Administration and Higher International Studies of the State University from Haiti (Inaghei).
He also has a master’s degree in Development and International Relations of the Caribbean from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences of the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (Flacso/Intec).
The official has previously held numerous positions in Haitian diplomacy, including Counselor at the Embassy of Haiti in the Dominican Republic (1995-1996), Consul of Haiti in Miami (1998-2003) and Charge d’affaires at the Haitian Embassy in Mexico (2019-2020).
