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Jean Marc has been working on environmental planning and disaster risk
management related initiatives for many 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-Liberté area), and
conducting forest biodiversity assessment and monitoring activities for the
Kellogg’s Foundation. Later he served as Geographic information Systems
(GIS) 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
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, through soundly managing the risks -
natural and man-made - to which they are being exposed. The
Caribbean Hazards Mitigation Capacity Building Program (CHAMP),
the
Grenada Hurricane Resilient Home Reconstruction Program [G-(HR)2]
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 Standards Development Program (HBS) are examples
of such initiatives.
A Fulbright
Scholar, Jean Marc holds a Master of Science (MS) 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 Concentrations in Environmental Information
Systems (GIS and Remote Sensing), Public Administration and Integrated
Environmental Planning, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in
Agricultural Engineering, with focus in Environmental Management from
Université Quisqueya in Port-au-Prince,
Haïti.
He is fluent in French, English, Spanish, and Creole.
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