Special Representative for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) ad interim

 Nigel Fisher (Canada)

Mr. Fisher, who since 2010 has served as Deputy Special Representative, United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti, succeeded Mariano Fernández of Chile as Special Representative for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on February 1^st, 2013.

Mr. Fisher brings to the position a thorough knowledge of the political, security and socio-economic situation in Haiti.  Immediately after the January 2010 earthquake, he led the multidisciplinary United Nations team which developed the Haiti Post Disaster Needs Assessment with national authorities. He also has extensive experience in the fields of international development, human security, mediation and conflict resolution.

Having joined the Organization in 1977, Mr. Fisher has previously served as Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services, as Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and as President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Canada.  He has also been UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Operations, Regional Director for South Asia, Representative in several countries and was Deputy Executive Secretary of the World Conference on Education for All.

Mr. Fisher has lived and worked in a dozen developing countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, a number of them in the midst of, or emerging from, civil conflict.  He has devoted much of his career to the protection of civilians in armed conflict and particularly, as a senior UNICEF official, of children affected by armed conflict.

Mr. Fisher holds an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and a Master’s degree in Political Science. He has received a number of awards, including Canada’s Meritorious Service Cross.

A Canadian national, he is married and has two daughters.

Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General

Carl Alexandre (USA)

Mr. Alexandre is a career member of the Senior Executive Service of the United States Government since 2001, and brings to his new position as DSRSG extensive managerial and leadership experience in the fields of international development and the rule of law.  He was the Director of the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training in the United States Department of Justice, where he oversaw the development and implementation of security sector and rule-of-law initiatives worldwide.  He also served his Government as Senior Resident Legal Adviser in Haiti from November 1994 to June 1997.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in government and public administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and a Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law.

Mr. Alexandre is married and has two children.

Force Commander

Lieutenant General Edson Leal Pujol (Brasil)

Lieutenant General Edson Leal Pujol was born in Dom Pedrito, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1955.

He joined the Brazilian Army in March, 1971 and graduated in December 1977, as a Cavalry officer. Since then, Gen Leal Pujol has developed a distinctive career in the Brazilian Army, having
served in several important positions.

As a junior officer, he served in Mechanized Cavalry units in southern and midwest Brazil.After ascending the superior officer, he served as staff officer in the Amazon Military Command and in
the Military Southern Command. After that, he has served at the Army Intelligence Center, and later in the Cabinet of the Commander of the Army, in Brasilia.

He was an instructor at the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras and at the Improvement Officers School, two of the most important military schools in Brazil.

Abroad, he attended the Armor Advanced Course in the United States Army’s Fort Knox, Kentucky, and performed as a United Nations Military Observer in ONUSAL, in El Salvador, Central America. Furthermore, he served as a Naval and Army Defense Attaché at the Brazilian Embassy in Suriname, South America.

As a Colonel, he took over the command of Army Administration School and the Military College, both in Salvador, Bahia.

As a Major General, he has commanded the 1st Mechanized Cavalry Brigade, in Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul. He also was Commander of the Military Academy of Agulhas Negras. When he was promoted to Lieutenant General he was appointed as the Chief of the Army Intelligence Center, in Brasília, his last post before to be designated as Force Commander/MINUSTAH.

Lieutenant General Leal Pujol’s professional qualifications include: Command and Staff at the Brazilian Army Command and Staff College (ECEME); Basic Parachutist; Jungle Operations; Politics, Strategy and High Administration of the Army; Airmobile Operations; Basic Intelligence and Mountain Operations.

Lieutenant General Leal Pujol is married and has two sons and one daughter.

Police Commissioner

Mr. Luis Miguel Carrilho (Portugal)

Mr. Luis Miguel Carrilho was appointed Police Commissioner of the United Nations Mission Stabilization in Haiti on 9 January 2013.

Police Commissioner Carrilho first joined the United Nations in 1996, working primarily on training of the civilian police with the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) until 1998. 2000-2001 he returned to UN peacekeeping with the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).

At that time, Mr. Carrilho served as the Director of the Timor-Leste Police Training College and as Spokesman for the United Nations Police Commissioner for UNTAET.

He finally worked as Police Commissioner of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) from February 2009 to the end of the Mission on December 2012.

Mr. Carrilho previously worked at the office of the President of the Republic of Portugal as the Head of Security, where he was responsible for overseeing the safety and security of the President and his Office.

He also served as the Commander of Close Protection of the Public Security Police, commanding the provision of security protection for national principals and foreign dignities visiting Portugal. In the late 1990s, he worked as the Chief of Cabinet of the Director of the Police College in Portugal.