Jovenel Moïse (French pronunciation: [ʒɔvənɛl mɔiz]; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ʒovɛnɛl mɔiz]; 26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian entrepreneur and politician who served as the President of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021. Final official results had shown him as the winner of the November 2016 election.[2][3] In 2019, political unrest and calls for his resignation became a crisis.[4][5]
In the early morning of 7 July 2021, Moïse was assassinated and his wife, Martine, injured during an attack on their private residence in Pétion-Ville.[6][7][8] Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph stated that he was in control of the country,[9] though the legalities of succession are unclear.[10]
Jovenel Moïse was born in Trou du Nord, Nord-Est, Haiti, on 26 June 1968. In July 1974, his family moved to Port-au-Prince, where he continued his primary studies at École Nationale Don Durélin, and followed up with his secondary studies first at Lycée Toussaint Louverture, and then at Centre Culturel du Collège Canado-Haïtien.[11] In 1996, he married his classmate Martine Marie Etienne Joseph.[11] That same year, they left the capital and established in Port-de-Paix to develop rural areas.[11]
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