Councilor

Christelle St-Natus Cavé

Christelle St-Natus Cavé is a licensed attorney and a registered member of the Port-au-Prince Bar. She is an accomplished legal professional with over ten years of experience practicing law in Haiti.

She holds a Law degree from the Iberoamerican University (UNIBE) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Students’ Law Review. Her professional background includes experience at well-established law firms, notably Del Valle & Associados and Hudicourt-Woolley.

Actively engaged at the international level, she has participated in two United Nations Commission simulation models in New York. She holds certifications in International Arbitration and International Construction Arbitration from the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., and completed a twelve-month International Arbitration training program at the Advance Arbitration Academy of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris.

She is an active member of the Chamber of Conciliation and Arbitration of Haiti (CCAH) of the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In June 2023, she became a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in London. She is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the Caribbean Bar Association, Young ICCA, and is listed as a Mediator Expert in the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) database.

Her areas of expertise include commercial law, mediation, arbitration, corporate law, labor law, civil law, and public procurement.

She served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Haitian Biodiversity Fund (FHB), demonstrating her commitment to sustainable development in Haiti.

She was recently elected by the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) as a Board Member of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA–CEJA) for a three-year term ending in 2029.