Ady Jean-Gardy

He contributed to the modernization and the revitalization of the Haitian media world. He took part in many training missions in West Africa and worked to establish the African Press Federation (Fédération de la Presse Africaine – FPA) along with various press leaders from Mali, Togo, Benin, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo, Madagascar, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The Conference of Ouagadougou in 2004 devoted the wishes of the founder of this great structure, through the unconditional support of the honorable Daniel Whitman of the State Department.

Ady Jean-Gardy born in Haiti, is a reformist and international press activist. He became Minister of Communication in Haiti (2012–13), after a brilliant experience as Chief of Staff of the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He deeply designed reforms for public communication without propaganda, respecting the human rights organizations and positioned Haiti as a powerful member of the African Union at Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). He worked to end civil wars in Africa and promoted a new image of Haiti as an International leader for peace. Ady Jean Gardy is also the founder of the Haitian Press Federation, an umbrella organization for various Haitian press associations. He founded the Haitian University of Journalism and Social Communication or the Haitian Center for Teaching Journalists.

Representative of Haiti to the International Conference of the Inter American Press Association on modern global Strategies of Communication, his wishes was to see the Haitian State Media (radio and television) become a community media with scrutiny by Parliament and the press organizations in the country. Being president of the International Media Foundation (IMF), by 2006 he produced a number of reports and recommendations for professional development in the media.

In 2004, Jean-Gardy led several missions to the Governor of Florida Jeb Bush and his officials to convince them to create a Plan of Assistance to Haiti in the priority fields of public health, education and gifts of equipment for rubbish collection and fire control. In Florida he created a new television network called Haiti World TV (HWT) which broadcasts information programs about Haiti and Haitian History for the education of Haitian communities.

Contracted to the International Center of Journalists in Washington, D.C. since 2004, consulting during two years with the Africa Section of the American State Department, and Advisor since 2005 of the Office Haiti-Freedoms France, he continues to travel between Europe and America reinforcing the bases of his work within the framework of inter-disciplinary solidarity.

In 2003, Jean-Gardy went to Amsterdam to meet members of the International Court of The Hague about the trafficking of Haitian children under the guise of adoption. On this subject he had a series of discussions with Dutch government officials, demanding better control on international adoptions to avoid a new black slave trade from Haiti. These steps led to a systematic inspection of adoption records between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, the United States and Europe.

At the start of 2000 he fought the Haitian Government on the international scene following several assassinations of Haitian journalists, such as Brignol Lindor of the town of Petit-Goave and Jean Dominique, Director of Haiti Radio-Inter, alerting the International Press Federation, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists, the Inter-American Press Company and the International Court of the Human Rights at The Hague.

In 1999 he was invited by the American State Department as an international representative of Haiti at the Assembly on the Democracy organized by the United Nations in Poland. He built strong international relations and is one of the most consulted Haitians about Caribbean affairs.

Jean-Gardy, who signs his name as Adyjeangardy on all professional documents, was a civil servant of the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), an operations manager of the United Nations Programs (1989–1992), associate Programs of the Environment with the Ministry of Agriculture of Haiti (1992–1993), operations manager at the Office of UNESCO (1993–1994), represented Haiti at the Center for Strategic studies and Diplomacy of Paris (1994–1997), operations manager at the Center for Communication Studies of Deutsche Welle in Germany (1998).

He was Director General of the Investigation Group Press (1987), and called by the president Ertha Pascal Trouillot to head the National radio of Haiti (1990–1991) and to help in the organization of the Presidential Elections which led to the presidential election of Jean Bertrand Aristide. Named by Aristide Ambassador of Haiti in Japan in 1991, Jean-Gardy retracted following the arrest of the President Ertha Pascal Trouillot. He preferred to integrate the system of the United Nations where he was hired by the Representative resident Reinhart Helmcke (Germany), as Coordinator of Programs (Hai89018 project) and Consulting National at the World Health Organization (WHO). Other experiments allowed Jean-Gardy to be the Representative in Haiti of International Union of the French Press for freedom of expression. He became thereafter Permanent correspondent of Voice of America (USA) in Haiti.

In the fall of the Haitian President Jean Claude Duvalier, the National council of Government of Haiti (CNG) appointed him director of the Daily newspaper of State Haiti Released (1986), but he resigned 6 months later affirming "not want to guarantee useless massacres of the civil population". Jean Gardy has entirely reorganized the Association of the Haitian Journalists (AJH) which he directed for 4 years, imposing the presence of this institution in the new Haitian Constitution of 1987.

Dean of the University Center for the training of Journalists, in 1985 he was asked by the Military Academy of Haiti to deliver courses on communication techniques, then, at the Police Academy of Haiti in 1995.