Stéphanie Villedrouin
| Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Ministry on Tourism and Creative Industries | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 2 April 2014 | |
| President | Michel Martelly |
| Prime Minister | Laurent Lamothe |
| Preceded by | Office created |
| Ministry on Tourism | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 20 October 2011 | |
| President | Michel Martelly |
| Prime Minister | Garry Conille Laurent Lamothe |
| Preceded by | Patrick Delatour |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 March 1982 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Nationality | Haitian |
| Spouse(s) | Marcel Bernard Villedrouin[1] |
| Children | 3[1] |
| Parents | Alix Balmir (father) |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Teacher[1] |
| Ethnicity | White[2] |
Stéphanie Balmir Villedrouin (b. Caracas, 29 March 1982) is a Haitian hotel manager and government minister.
Early years
Balmir Villedrouin comes from a prominent family in Haiti; she is the seventh child of Alix Balmir, a Haitian diplomat from a light-skinned mulatto background, and his wife, Gladys Dubousquet, a native of the city of Gonaives, Haiti,.[1][3] She was born in Caracas while her father was serving as the Ambassador of Haiti in Venezuela.[4] Two months later her father is designated to the Haitian Embassy in Colombia, wherein Balmir Villedrouin spent her early childhood.[1] After the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier’s regime, in 1986, the whole family returned to Haiti and established restaurants and hotels.[1][2][5]
Balmir Villedrouin, who was four years old when her family returned to Haiti, completed her schooling in Port-au-Prince.[1] Then, she studied Hospitality and Tourism Management at the Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Teacher, in Santiago, Dominican Republic;[1] she managed a hotel in Kenscoff, a mountainous hamlet located 10 kilometres to the southeast of Port-au-Prince.[2][5] She is fluent on Creole, French, Spanish and English languages.[2]
Minister of Tourism
She is since 20 October 2011 the Minister of Tourism of Haiti.[6] On 2 April 2014, in a Presidential reform to the Council of Ministers, wherein only 7 out of 24 ministers remained, she was reconfirmed as minister of Tourism and Creative Industries.[7]
During her tenure as minister, Haiti inaugurated its first Tourism Promotion Office.[8]
Personal life
In 2003, she married Marcel Bernard Villedrouin and they have three children together.[1]
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Stéphanie B. Villedrouin : le Tourisme, une affaire de cœur" (in French). Le Matin. 27 December 2012. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Shafy, Samiha (18 July 2014). "A Damned Paradise: Does Haiti Need Tourism? Or Does It Need Justice?". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "In New York, working to help their school in Haiti and its city". The New York Times. 7 October 2009. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "Haitian Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin Balmir on Leadership and Revamping the Country into a Destination Hotspot". Kreyolicious. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Cabinet ministériel : Quelques repères biographiques" (in French). Radio Kiskeya. 20 October 2011. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "Haiti" (in French). Union de la Presse Francophone. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "Les 7 inamovibles ministres de Martelly". MetropoleHaiti.com (in French). 3 April 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ "Haití promueve destinos turísticos a dominicanos" (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: El Día. 29 August 2014. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.