Garry Conille | |
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Conille at the U.S. State Department (2012)
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15th Prime Minister of Haiti | |
In office 18 October 2011 – 16 May 2012 |
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President | Michel Martelly |
Preceded by | Jean-Max Bellerive |
Succeeded by | Laurent Lamothe |
Minister of Justice Acting |
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In office 22 November 2011 – 12 December 2011 |
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Preceded by | Josué Pierre-Louis |
Succeeded by | Michel Brunache |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 February 1966 |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater |
University of Haiti University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Dr. Garry Conille (born 26 February 1966) is a Haitian academic, development worker, author, and former Prime Minister of Haiti. He submitted his resignation as prime minister on 24 February 2012 and was officially succeeded by Laurent Lamothe on 16 May 2012.
Garry Conille is the second of a family of four brothers (Serge, Pierre and Jean Conille). He is the son of Marie Antoinette Darbouze and Dr. Serge Conille, former Minister of Sports and Youth in the Duvalier government. He is married to Betty Rousseau, the daughter of Marc Bazin, a former Prime Minister of Haiti and has twin girls, Soraya and Gaelle.
At the age of 14, he played soccer in the 2nd division of Haiti. He is also a music and arts master and performed at Carnegie Hall, in New York at the age of five.
After graduating from Collège Canado-Haïtien and the Faculty of Medecine and Pharmacy of University of Haiti, Garry Conille obtained an MA in Political and Health Administration, as a fellow of the Fulbright Scholar Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Afterwards, he received a certificate of specialty in Gynecology and Obstetrics at Isaïe Jeanty maternity and a PH.D. in Medicine at the University of Haiti.
Between July 1994 and June 1998, at the Haitian Association for the National Development, he developed and implemented a primary care system that provided basic health care in poor areas of Haiti. In August 1999, as an evaluation consultant, Garry Conille was responsible for the impact assessment of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, an NGO in the field of community development, providing community care to over 260,000 people in Artibonite. Between the years 2000 - 2004, he created and hosted at Radio Vision 2000 the first national interactive program focused on issues related to reproductive and sexual health.
Garry Conille began his career with the United Nations in 1999, as project officer (October 1999 - April 2001), then programme officer (April 2001 - October 2002) at United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Haiti. Between October 2002 and May 2004, he was technical advisor at Population Services International (PSI) Haiti.