Jean Baden Dubois
Governor, Bank of the Republic of Haiti
Jean Baden Dubois is the Governor of the Banque de la République d’Haïti (BRH) since December 2015. He is a highly qualified and respected professional, with over 25 years of experience in the Haitian banking system. In 1990, he was selected among twenty young professionals from all Citibank branches in the Caribbean and Latin America to participate in a management trainee program called Entering the CITI, equivalent to an MBA in Banking and Finance. Mr. Dubois also holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago, with a minor in Operations Research.
Governor Dubois joined the Central Bank of Haiti in 1995 as Administrative Director, a position he held for four (4) years. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as an expert delegate to the Office of the Minister of Economy and Finance, and then served as Director of the bank’s Information and Technology Department from 2001 to 2011. In November 2011, he was appointed Director General to the Board of Directors.
Jean Baden Dubois initiated a number of reforms that have intensified the modernization of the Central Bank and the Haitian payment system.
In June 2021, during the 5th Roundtable of Central Bank Governors of the region, he was chosen to assume the Presidency of the Financial Inclusion Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean (FILAC) for the period 2021-2023.