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A policy nerd hopes to save Haiti. This country's new premier is viewed as an outsider untainted by dirty politics.

As the new premier of Haiti, a country with no president or Parliament, where gangs have destroyed dozens of police stations and killed thousands of people, Garry Conille has arguably one of the toughest jobs of any leader in the Western Hemisphere.

He has attended funerals for slain police officers and met with their widows. He fired the police chief - blaming him for failing to fight the gangs - and named a new one.

And he ushered in police officers from Kenya tasked with helping alleviate the violence. He spent last week knocking on doors in Washington with an urgent message : '' This is no time for Haiti fatigue.''

The World Students Society thanks Frances Robles.