Rénald Clérismé

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Jean-Rénald Clérismé (born 1937^{[citation needed]}) is a Haïtian politician. He has been foreign minister of the country since 9 June 2006. Clérsimé began his career as a Catholic priest. Clérsimé was ambassador of Haiti to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Trade Center (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland from 2001-2003.

Clérsimé completed his B.A. in France, 1967; received a M.A. in Anthropology, from New York University, in 1975, and also a M.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1993. In addition he received his Ph.D., in Anthropology from Yale in 1996 as a Fulbright Scholar.

The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Migration and Relations of Production in the Dominican Coffee Economy: Haitian Workers on El Fondo Coffee Plantations." He is also the author of other scholarly works on Haitian society.