Garry Conille the official designation for this office from the President Michel Martelly. This would be the third nomination after Jean-Max Bellerive's resignation on 15 May 2011 and the subsequent rejections by the Senate of the nominees Daniel Rouzier and Bernard Gousse. Conille's nomination faces questions regarding his recent residency, as to whether he fulfills the requirement, prescribed in the Constitution of Haiti, of having resided in the country for five consecutive years prior to ratification. The president countered this argument by saying that Conille was exempt from the residency requirement because he had been working for the United Nations, paying taxes
Jean Michel Larrasket vice president for the French Basque Country in the Basque Studies Society from, a position he would hold until his death. Jean Michel Larrasket Jean-Michel Larrasket (, ) (22 May 1950 – 19 March 2018), was a French professor and engineer, as well as vice president for the French Basque Country in the Basque Studies Society. He was a promoter of several projects for the social and economic development of the French Basque Country, and he was also one of the founders of the "Eticoop" cooperative that promotes entrepreneurship in this geographical area. Larrasket's parents were from the town of