Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste

Jean-Victor Harvel Jean-Baptiste is Haiti's minister of foreign affairs and religious affairs.^[1][2][3] In January 2025, he warned during a United Nations Security Council meeting that "the very survival of the state" of Haiti was at risk in the face of gang violence.^[4]

Life

Jean-Baptiste completed his high school at the Collège Canado-Haïtien in Port-au-Prince. He went on to obtain a degree in psychologie at the State University of Haiti.^[5] In 1990, Jean-Baptiste earned a diploma in development studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.^[6][7]

He joined Haiti's diplomatic service in 1993. Jean-Baptiste served as Haiti's ambassador to Chile and to the Organization of American States.^[8][9] In 2001, he was named inspector general of the Haitian National Police. Simultaneously, he became a member of a presidential commission set up to resolve a territorial conflict at the Dominican Republic-Haiti border.^[10]