Huguette has a diverse and dynamic professional journey, including roles as a board member, public speaker, researcher, program manager, and strategic projects developer. She draws on her strengths in building trust, understanding various contexts, fostering collaboration, and establishing local and international partnerships to create and foster vibrant and thriving communities.

She has led technology adoption in different sectors, including education, rural development, and global health, in over 40 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. A key highlight of her career includes co-chairing the inaugural Digital Health Technical Advisory Group at the World Health Organization. In this capacity, she led working groups that contributed to shaping the digital health landscape globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, she co-led the development of WHO’s digital solutions clearinghouse, a resource designed to empower member states in identifying and implementing health solutions effectively.

Huguette has collaborated with organizations locally and globally throughout her career, such as UN bodies, NGOs, CSOs, academic and research institutions, professional associations, and government leaders. In all these partnerships, she focuses on bridging divides, enhancing health policies, improving connectivity, building capacity, developing leaders, incorporating local perspectives in research, and advocating for responsible technology deployment.

She is a Senior Fellow and Global Innovator at The Aspen Institutes, where she facilitates connections between policymakers and critical research in health and technology. In addition, she is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School’s Executive Education program, concentrating on partnerships in digital transformation in global health.

Huguette is an expert in community engagement and economic development with extensive experience in sub-Saharan Africa. She combines industry experience with broad knowledge of African culture and politics. She is fluent in English, French, Lingala, and Swahili.

Huguette holds a degree in International Business and Economics from Suffolk University in Boston, MA. In 2014, her expertise was recognized when she was invited to testify before Congress at a special session on the future of the DRC, and to attend the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC.