Jovenel Moïse (French pronunciation: [ʒɔv(ə)nɛl mɔiz]; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ʒovɛnɛl mɔiz]; 26 June 1968 – 7 July 2021) was a Haitian politician and businessman who served as the 48th president of Haiti from 2017 until his assassination in 2021. He assumed the presidency in February 2017 following his victory in the November 2016 Haitian presidential election.

Moïse's presidency coincided with a period of political instability in Haiti, including civil unrest, gang-related violence, fuel shortages and widespread lawlessness. At approximately 1:00 am on 7 July 2021, Moïse was shot several times and killed in a premeditated targeted attack at his private home in Pétion-Ville, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.

Jovenel Moïse was born on 26 June 1968 in Trou du Nord, Nord-Est. Moïse's father, Étienne Moïse, was a farmer and a mechanic, while his mother, Lucia Bruno, was a seamstress. Moïse, alongside his family, relocated to Port-au-Prince in July 1974 where he attended primary school at the École Nationale Don Durélin, secondary school at Lycée Toussaint Louverture and the Centre Culturel du Collège Canado-Haïtien. At Quisqueya University, Moïse pursued studies in political science, with a particular focus on local governance and rural development.

In 1996, Moïse married Martine Marie Étienne Joseph, his classmate at the time. They left Port-au-Prince that year and settled in Port-de-Paix, Nord-Est. Contemporary reports stated that after returning to rural Nord-Est he advocated rural development, proposing that Haiti address endemic poverty in part through an agrarian economy. Jovenel and Martine Moïse had three children, Jomarlie Moïse, Jovenel Moïse Jr., and Joverlein Moïse.

In the mid-1990s, Moïse established JoMar Auto Parts, a company that sold automobile components. The following year, he started an agricultural project, an organic banana plantation of more than 10 hectares (25 acres) in Haiti's Nord-Ouest department. In 2001, he worked with Culligan Water, an American water treatment company, to set up potable water filtration plants in the Nord-Ouest and Nord-Est departments. By 2004, Moïse joined the Northwest Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCINO), later serving as its president.

In 2012, Moïse founded Agritrans SA to manage what was presented as Haiti's first agricultural free-trade zone, a 1,000-hectare (2,500-acre) banana plantation in the Nord-Est, known as the Nourribo Project.The project aimed to export bananas to Germany, which would have marked Haiti's first banana exports to the country since 1954, but only two containers were ultimately shipped.

The Haitian government granted Agritrans tax-free access to land, a 15-year exemption from income tax and customs duties on capital equipment, and a $6 million loan. Anonymous investors added at least $10 million. The company projected the creation of about 3,000 jobs, but by March 2015, around 600 people had been employed.

In 2015, Haitian President Michel Martelly designated Moïse as the presidential candidate of the political party he had founded, the center-right Haitian Tèt Kale Party (PHTK). In his campaign, Moïse promoted biodynamic agriculture as an economic engine for Haiti, whose population was over 50% rural.