Steeve Khawly, is a businessman and a Haitian philanthropist.
Background
To provide an answer to the housing problem in Haiti, he modernized the brick factory founded ten years ago by his father in association with local investors in order to reduce the need of import materials and facilitate the development of the construction.
Career
He is candidate to the Haitian presidential elections of 2015. After his studies at the University of Miami, he obtained a industrial engineering degree and became an entrepreneur in Haiti. He decided to specialize in rice processing and flour production.
Economic and environmental commitments have made of him a visible figure on the Haitian political scene.
He founded in 2004 Louisiana Fondation Seguin, a nonprofit organization, in order to preserve 11,000 hectares of the main park of Haiti called "Louisiana Visite". More widely, this foundation disseminates ecology values and sustainable development ideas.
By making surrounding communities participate and benefit from better management of park resources, he catched the eye of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and was welcomed by Irina Bokova, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Special Envoy. In 2014, he also founded with twelve other men of Haitian affairs the group "Haiti Cherie".
This initiative aims to start off the national rebirth thanks to the commitment of a responsible economic elite.
He is one of the main candidates in the Haitian presidential elections of October 2015, under the banner "Bouclier Réseau National". His dual sensitivity, economic and ecological, shines in its program He particularly expressed himself through opinions pages to encourage the development of renewable energies in Haiti.
He believes that renewable energies can create jobs.
He also takes a stand for responsible agricultural environmental policy. Steeve Khawly is married and has four children.
He was born of a mechanic training father and a housewife mother. His father was assassinated on December 6, 2002.
Views
From an economic point of view, he defends the eco-tourism and a greater openness of the Haitian economy to foreign investments.