Stephan Jean-Pierre

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ABOUT STEPHAN JEAN-PIERRE

Stéphan Jean-Pierre has more than 25 years experience in agribusiness providing project management and technical assistance to farmers association, private and public institutions. He managed the Fédération des Associations Caféières Natives (FACN), representing over Haitian coffee growers from 1997 to 2004. He was instrumental in restructuring the federation, improving the quality of their flagship coffee Haitian Bleu, developing a branding and exclusive marketing strategy for the US specialty coffee market and expending the product into new markets in Europe and Asia. As a coffee sector specialist for the Hillside Agriculture Program (HAP), he redefined and implemented a coffee strategy and new business model based on strategic alliances between grower associations and private sector enterprises. As the coffee Value chain manager for the Burundi Agribusiness Project, he successfully designed and implemented activities that led to the certification of the first fairtrade certified cooperatives in this country. He recently Managed the Agricultural Markets component of the USAID Feed the Future North project. He is currently the Agriculture Program Coordinator for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti. M. Jean-Pierre has participated in the creation of the Haitian National Coffee Institute and is a founding member of the Haitian Canadian Chamber of Commerce and of the Organic Agriculture Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Jean-Pierre received his B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics from Mc Gill University in Montreal, Canada and a Masters in Business Administration from HEC Montreal.