Kalinda Magloire

Kalinda Magloire, CEO of Switch, is an entrepreneur and a governance and development management specialist with decades of experience managing donor-funded institutional strengthening, capacity building, and gender projects in Haiti and abroad. She leads Switch, an enterprise with social impact determined to massively convert Haitian households from charcoal to LPG. In addition to manufacturing and distributing stoves, SWITCH has developed different financial models allowing low-income households to switch to a cleaner energy. Kalinda is involved with different organizations working for women empowerment. She is also engaged in a network for competitiveness. This group’s objective is to help smaller companies reach international standards of quality and processes to have access to international funding. Kalinda is a member of the Women in LPG Global network. Kalinda has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Montreal and a Master’s in International Development Management from the London School of Economics.