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Jean Marc has been working on
environmental planning and disaster risk management related initiatives in
the Caribbean for over 5 years now. First in his home country Haiti,
managing Land Use Assessment, Characterization and Monitoring Programme for
the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), serving as Study
Mission Officer for a UN Development Program (UNDP) groundwater management
and coastal biodiversity assessment in the presence of climate uncertainty
in Northeastern Haiti (Fort-Liberty area), and conducting forest
biodiversity assessment and monitoring activities for the Kellogg’s
Foundation. Later he served as Geographic information Systems Analyst to the
Save the County Land Trust Inc. and the US Department of Agriculture
Northeastern Research Station (USDA) in Syracuse NY.
At the OAS/DSD, which he joined in
April 2004, he has been in charge, as technical coordinator and program
manager, of varied programs requiring essentially inter-disciplinary
capabilities and advanced understanding of hydro-climatic and
geo-morphologic systems, environmental and structural engineering techniques
and methods, which are all integrated toward increasing community resiliency
to climate related hazards. The
Caribbean Hazards Mitigation Capacity Building Program, the
Grenada Resilient Reconstruction Program established by the OAS at the
Government of Grenada’s request in the aftermath of the devastation created
by Hurricane Ivan in September 04, and
Haiti Building Norms Development Program are examples of such
programs.
A Fulbright Scholar, Jean Marc holds a
Master of Science (MSc) degree in Environmental Land Use Planning and Policy
from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and the Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, with
Specializations in Environmental Information Systems (GIS and Remote
Sensing), and Integrated Environmental Planning, and a Bachelor of Science
(BSc) degree in Agricultural Engineering, with focus in Environmental
Management from the University Quisqueya in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is
fluent in French, English and Creole, and has good knowledge of Spanish. |
