Jean-Rénald Clérismé (November 7, 1937[1] – October 29, 2013[2]) was a Haitian politician, diplomat and former Catholic priest.
Clérismé began his career as a Roman Catholic priest.
He was ambassador of Haiti to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Trade Center (ITC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2001 to 2003.
In addition he received his Ph.D., in Anthropology from Yale in 1996 as a Fulbright Scholar.
The title of his doctoral dissertation was "Migration and Relations of Production in the Dominican Coffee Economy: Haitian Workers on El Fondo Coffee Plantations."