Camille CHALMERS

Camille Chalmers is the executive secretary of the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development (PAPDA), the leading Haitian organization analyzing the impact of structural adjustment. Chief of staff to then-President Jean Bertrand Aristide from 1993 to 1994, Chalmers resigned over disagreement with the development policy mandates of international donors. Chalmers has been a professor of economics at State University in Haiti since 1983. He was arrested and brutally beaten by the Haitian military regime in the early l990s.