Georges Anglade, Canadian academic, was born on July 18, 1944. He died in the Haiti earthquake on January 12, 2010, aged 65
Georges Anglade escaped from Haiti to Canada in 1969, having been been active in the exiled Haitian democracy movement. He was imprisoned by the Duvalier regime on his return to Haiti in 1974.
Anglade was appointed as an adviser to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide after he was elected in 1991. “If we can just move Haiti from misery to poverty, we will have done a lot,” he said at the time. He was appointed Minister of Public Works, Transport and Communication in 1995 but returned to Canada a year later.
Back in Canada he worked as a professor of geography at the Montreal campus of the University of Quebec.
In 2008 he founded the Haitian chapter of the charity PEN, which seeks freedom of expression for writers. He wrote a book of short stories, Haitian Laughter, told in lodyans, a Haitian storytelling narrative.
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Anglade had been on an extended visit to Haiti with his wife, Mirelle, when the earthquake struck, causing the family home in which they were staying to collapse.
They both died and are survived by a daughter.
Luiz Carlos da Costa, deputy special representative for the UN in Haiti, was born on June 4, 1949. He died in the Haiti earthquake on January 12, 2010, aged 60
Luiz Carlos da Costa, principal deputy special representative for the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Minustah), had only assumed his responsibilities on November 15.
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He had worked for the UN since 1969 and for more than 25 years in a variety of roles at the headquarters building in New York.
From 1992 until 2000 he was chief of personnel management and support service in the Field Administration and Logistics Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York.
He worked in the field at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (Unmik) between 2000 and 2001. He served as principal officer for change management in the office of the undersecretary-general for Peacekeeping Operations from August 2001 until November 2002.
He was appointed the director of the Logistics Support Division of the Office of Mission Support in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in 2003.
He was posted to Haiti having served as deputy special representative for Operations and Rule of Law for the United Nations Mission in Liberia (Unmil) since September 2005.
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He is survived by his wife and two daughters.