Factbox: Haiti PM choice is development specialist

(Reuters) - Haiti's Senate on Tuesday approved Michel Martelly's nomination of Gary Conille to be the country's prime minister, following a similar endorsement last month by the lower house of parliament.

Following are some facts about Conille.

-- Conille, 45, a medical doctor, already has direct experience of helping to manage Haiti's rebuilding from the January 2010 earthquake. From March 2010 to June 2011, he served as chief of staff for the United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, helping to coordinate the U.N. and international earthquake response and the mobilization and follow-through of donor commitments.

-- At the time of his nomination for the prime minister role, he was serving as the resident representative and humanitarian coordinator for the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) in the West African state of Niger. He has a long career as a U.N. official, having started in 1999 as a project officer for the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) in Haiti.

-- A medical doctor by training, his education includes a doctorate in medicine at the State University of Haiti. He has Masters in Health Policy and Health Administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and gained a Certificate of Specialty in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Haiti's Isai Jeanty Maternity Hospital. He has written several texts on health care issues in developing countries, including Haiti.

-- With the UNDP, he worked for several years on initiatives supporting the U.N. Millennium Development Goals that aim to halve global poverty, hunger and disease by 2015. This included developing an MDG acceleration framework for U.N. country teams and a country assessment on MDG achievement.

-- Born on February 26, 1966, he is the son of Dr. Serge Conille, a former Minister of Sports and Youth who served under former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier. He is married to a daughter of a former prime minister of Haiti, Marc Bazin, and has two daughters.

(Reporting by Pascal Fletcher; Editing by Will Dunham)