Michel Martelly which had been abolished in the 1990s by Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Martelly was born in Port-au-Prince, the son of Gerard Martelly, a Shell Oil executive and Marie Madeleine De Martelly (1931-21 October 2016). On his mother's side, his grandfather Auguste de Pradines was a troubadour who wrote comic protest songs against the 1915-34 United States occupation of Haiti. After graduating from high school at the Institution Saint Louis de Gonzague, Martelly enlisted in the Haitian Military Academy, but (according to Martelly) was expelled after impregnating the daughter of a general. In 1984, he moved to the United States, and worked in
Jean-Michel Vernhes Paris in 1989 to work until 1993 at the aircraft certification department. In 1993, he became responsible for human resources at the French air navigation service before being nominated President of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in 1999. The 18th of May 2011, in addition, he became President of the French Airports ("Union des aéroports français"). Jean-Michel Vernhes Jean-Michel Vernhes (born in 1950 at Mazamet) is a French public servant. He is the current President of French Airports ("Union des aéroports français") and of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport. Graduate from "classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles" at (Toulouse) and from the "École nationale de l'aviation civile"