Board of Directors
Please note: IRSP is in the midst of restructuring its managing team. The previous Board has therefore ended its obligation with IRSP, and we are working towards building up a new team with our executive director.
Hyppolite Pierre, Haiti Country Specialist for Amnesty International, is Executive Director of the IRSP. He came up with the concept for this nonprofit organization back in 2001, and has slowly built it up to where it is now. The Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Politics is now incorporated in Maryland, with a Board of Directors, and is an IRS 501(c)(3) organization. The next step for the IRSP, is to begin research on socioeconomic and cultural issues in Haiti, starting in 2007. Pierre is also a writer and author. His first book, "Haiti, Rising Flames from Burning Ashes", was published April of this year. Among his next projects are a historical fiction about the leader of the Independence of Haiti, with the tentative title of "Dialogue with Defile", and a book about culture and development entitled "As the Drum Rolls...". Hyppolite is adjunct professor of Comparative Politics at the Community College of Baltimore County in Essex and Catonsville, Maryland.
