Maxime D. Charles, President
Former CEO of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Haiti. His legal and financial career includes teaching international law from 1985 to 1991 at the State University of Haiti and carrying out international assignments in Canada and the Caribbean for the Bank of Nova Scotia from 1992 to 1996.
Mr. Charles is active in several professional and civil society fields, serving as a board member of the Arbitration Tribunal of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and as president of both the Anti–Money Laundering Committee and the Association of Professional Bankers. He used his position within the Anti–Money Laundering Committee and the Bankers’ Association to bring these groups together and advance legal reform.
Mr. Charles holds a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of Haiti and a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Provence in France.
Daniele Magloire, Vice President
Sociologist, management consultant, human rights activist, and founding member of the feminist organization Kay Fanm, which runs a shelter in Port-au-Prince for survivors of sexual violence and works to promote women’s rights and economic development. She has contributed to the development of national policies and responses against gender-based violence and serves as the coordinator of the Collective Against Impunity, a leading group in the effort to bring former President Jean-Claude Duvalier and his associates to justice in Haiti.
Mrs. Magloire was a distinguished member of the government’s advisory council during the post-Aristide transitional government from 2004 to 2006. Following her government service, Magloire became the Executive Director of the Haitian office of the Canadian NGO Rights and Democracy, where she led human rights and advocacy training until 2012, when the Harper government shut down Rights and Democracy in Canada.
Norma Powell, Secretary
Former Executive Director of the Center for the Facilitation of Investments (CFI), Haiti’s national investment promotion agency. Founding member of the Haitian Liberal Party and the Haitian Association for the Fight Against Poverty.
Powell’s commitment to philanthropy includes the creation of the Association for Risk Management and Business Continuity, a private-sector initiative that works with local authorities to help prevent and respond to disasters. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Haven, an Ireland-based housing and community development NGO that works with Haitians to build or repair thousands of homes and to restore public hygiene and sanitation following the 2010 earthquake.
Jean-Joseph Exumé, Member
A lawyer specializing in civil and commercial law, he has served twice as Minister of Justice and Public Security, notably in the government of Michèle D. Pierre-Louis (2008–2009). He is a volunteer attorney of the group of victims of the Duvalier regime, the Collective Against Impunity, and member of the Board of Directors of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights.
He also served as a member of the presidential commission established in January 2012 to revise Haiti’s 180-year-old Penal Code (a draft revision of the Penal Code was submitted in March 2015).
Elisabeth Colimon Woolley, Member
She is an activist lawyer with Dantes P. Colimon and has been a member of the Port-au-Prince Bar since 1978. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from the Faculty of Law and Economics in 1980.
She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bar of the Port Authority of the Ark of Haiti and the Haiti Fund for Women’s Aid; Member of the Ethics Committee of the GHESKIO Centers and the Soroptimist International Club of Port-au-Prince. She is also interested in microcredit, ethics and personal development (motivation and self-awareness).