Regine Boucard was born in Haiti I 1951. Due to political entanglements with “Papa Doc” Duvalier, in 1957 her family emigrated in Mexico where she was raised. At an early age she was trained by her stepfather journalist/writer Daniel James as his assistant in his research on the socio-cultural impact of the immigration phenomenon from Latin America and the Caribbean.
She worked at the World Bank for 25 years and was stationed in Madagascar for half of that time. Under the directorship of Dr. Ismail Serageldin she worked on the Social Dimensions of Structural Adjustment in Africa and in the establishment of the World Bank Art Committee. While Secretary of the World Bank Art Committee and, with the support of James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, she created and coordinated the World Bank Art Department which purpose is to bring to the fore underprivileged communities through art and culture while enriching the institutions art collection with representations from peoples from member countries.
She is also an independent curator who has produced many international exhibitions and cultural productions. Since retiring from the World Bank in 2001, she continues to lend her expertise in socio-cultural activities as strategic planner in program development at the West African Museum Program in Dakar, Senegal; Promayart Foundation for the Mayan communities of Chiapas, Mexico; the Haitian Art Museum and Fondation Centre d’Art in Haiti, among others. Ms. Boucard now lives in the Hamptons in New York where she has resumed her own artistic pursuits and is writing a novel inspired by the intellectual and instinctive social survival of immigrants from Haiti of the last decade.
She is a consummate advocate for the acknowledgement of multiculturalism in contemporary societies, social protection and the dilemma of ethnocultural conflicts.