Patrick Attié

Patrick Attié obtained his Engineering degree in Electronics from École Supérieure d’Electronique de l’Ouest (ESEO), Angers, France, and his Master’s degree in Computer Science from George Washington University (GWU), Washington, D.C., USA. A networking consultant for years, he currently holds the position of Director of the École Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haiti (http://esih.edu), a private Haitian Higher Education Institution – of which he is also Co-Founder and which is recognized by the Haitian Ministry of Education – and a voting member of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Patrick Attié is also the Co-Founder of the first Caribbean Virtual Reality laboratory, destroyed after the earthquake and currently being redeployed thanks to the grant from the WISE Haiti Task Force and the FOKAL Foundation. This initiative is essentially aimed at recreating a 3D immersive model of the Haitian cultural, historical and tourist heritage. 

He is the Vice-President of the French Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a (Founding) Member of the Board of the Conférence des Recteurs et des Présidents des Universités Haïtiennes, a Member of the Board of the newly created Haitian Association of the Advancement of Science and Technology, and a Founding Member of the Haitian Association for the Development of Information and Communication Technology. 

He was also the Coordinator of the Presidential Commission on Information and Communications Technology from 2009 to 2011 and is now a consultant for the President’s e-Government Unit.