Ralph Valery Valiere is a recent graduate from the University of Chicago with a master's in public policy (specializing in data analytics). His area of interest includes governance in Haiti,  regulations, competition policy, and community development. He is passionate about economic and political reforms for Haiti’s development and well-being. He is also interested in the application of behavioral economics techniques in public policy. He believes that considering people's cognitive and psychological biases while studying their economic behaviors can help governments (especially in Haiti) build more efficient policies to fight against extreme poverty in rural areas, to reduce inequality, and to create better living conditions for the population. 

Prior to coming to the University of Chicago, Ralph was the Youth Entrepreneurship Specialist for Compassion International in Haiti. He was responsible for designing and coordinating the implementation of a program to support more than 56,000 young Compassion beneficiaries,  especially those who wanted to start a business. His focus was to help create an environment where those youngsters could become self-sufficient financially and have an impact on their local community by creating wealth and jobs. Ultimately, it implied protecting them against financial vulnerability, which could avoid rural exodus and/or limit gang enrollment. 

Ralph also worked for the Haitian government for seven years in several positions (from 2014 to  2021): first as an analyst at the Economic Promotion Division, then as a technical advisor to the  Minister of Economy and Finance, and finally as an advisor to the President’s Cabinet (in 2017).  During that period, he worked on proposing, building, and evaluating economic policies, most of hem related to private sector development: from monitoring and evaluating economic policies or designing a strategic mechanism that saved thousands of jobs in the textile industry to leading a  Competition Team (in collaboration with the World Bank) for three years and coordinating the elaboration of a Competitiveness and Investment Plan.