Christelle Vaval is an ever evolving lawyer, based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her legal training and education was completed in Quebec, Canada, where she obtained a double major in Civil and Common Law. She is also a duly registered member of the Quebec (Canada) and Port-au-Prince (Haiti) Bar Associations. Christelle is specialized in Business Law and Intellectual Property and is also a certified .HT registrar.
Christelle's involvement with ICANN includes her first time Fellowship at ICANN53 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She advocates in favor of better access to the Internet and promotes the usage of the .HT ccTLD. In 2014, Christelle co-founded the first Haitian website that aims to promote and facilitate the purchase of .HT domains.
She is also actively involved in many nonprofit organizations at various levels: Assistant-secretary of the Canadian-Haitian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIHC), member of the Haiti Committee of the Montreal Bar and of the Diaspora Committee of AmCham Haiti, she also serves as Focal point for Haiti for the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in the Caribbean (OHADAC) project.