Carlos Gabriel Ruiz-Massieu Aguirre
Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH)
Mexico
On 02 July 2025, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Carlos G. Ruiz Massieu of Mexico as his new Special Representative for Haiti and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH).
Mr. Ruiz Massieu brings to this position over 30 years of experience in public service and diplomacy, both in bilateral and multilateral contexts. As Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Colombia since 2019, he led the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia, monitoring the implementation of the Peace Agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC-EP) guerrilla. He provided good offices and political leadership in the recent peace dialogues of the Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army, as well as with other illegal armed groups. Prior to this assignment, he served as the Chairperson of the General Assembly’s Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions from 2013 to 2018.
A distinguished career diplomat, Mr. Ruiz Massieu served in different positions in the Mexican Government prior to joining the United Nations, including at the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations. Mr. Ruiz Massieu is a graduate in law from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and holds a Master of Arts in politics from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, with a focus on Latin America. In addition to Spanish, he speaks English and French.
Nicole Flora Boni Kouassi
Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti.
Côte d'Ivoire
Ms. Nicole Flora Boni Kouassi of Côte d'Ivoire is the Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Haiti.
Ms. Boni Kouassi brings over 22 years of UN experience to this position, with extensive experience in development, peace and security, and humanitarian work. She has been serving as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Niger since 2022, where she also assumed the role of Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim between 2023-2024. Prior to that, she held the position of UNDP Resident Representative in Burundi between 2019-2022 and served as Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator ad interim in 2021.
Previously, she served in various leadership roles, notably as UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Djibouti and Niger, and as Senior UN Coherence Specialist in New York.
Ms. Boni Kouassi holds a Doctorate in Medicine from the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, formerly known as Université de Cocody in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland, USA. In addition to her native Baule, she is fluent in English and French.