Agr Lesly Joseph, MSc, serves as the General Director of Father Joseph Network (FJN), in Haiti. Lesly is an agronomist and statistician, specializing in biostatistics. He was born in the Limonade district of Haiti and obtained his degree in Agronomy at the State University of Haiti, in 2014. In 2017, he received a full scholarship to complete his Masters of Science in Agro-Environmental Sciences at the University of Ghent, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Belgium. The institution is regularly ranked among the top 100 universities in the world and among the best research universities in continental Europe.

After obtaining his MSc, Agr Joseph returned to Haiti in 2019 to join the team of the University of Fondwa (UNIF) as professor of Research Methodology. In 2021, he was named Dean of Agronomy at UNIF. He conducts research and publishes internationally with collaborators including: with the University of Arkansas (2022) in Food Security, the article “A Broken Market: Can Increased Access to Broken Rice Decrease Food Insecurity in Haiti? »; with Virginia Tech (2023) in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, section Social Movements, Institutions and Governance, the article “Sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty in Haiti: Sharing knowledge and shaping understanding of food systems at the University of Fondwa.”