Speakers
- Dr. Compton Bourne, O.E., Professor Emeritus - Key Speaker
- Dr. Roy Thomas Honoree
- Drs. Ram Dwarka, Anton de Kom University, Suriname – Business Forum
- Mr. Gregory McGuire, National Gas Company – Business Forum
- Ms. Angella Persad, T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce – Business Forum
- Dr. Marlene Attzs, Department of Economics
- Mr. Bryan Khan, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago
- Professor Timothy Shaw, Director, Institute of International Relations
- Samantha Joseph, Labour and Human Capital Development
- Mr. Martin Franklin, Department of Economics
- Ms. Donna Ramjattan, Sustainable Economics Development Unit
- Ms. Josanne Leonard, Miribai Communications
- Dr. Suzanne Burke, Department of Creative and Festival Arts
Dr. Suzanne Burke
Biography
Suzanne Burke is a development specialist with over fifteen years professional experience whose work involves teaching, research, and advocacy. She was formally trained in the areas of Psychology (B.A. York University, Canada), Development (M.A. Magna cum laude, Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands), and Sociology (PhD Essex University, UK).
Her work focuses on the areas of human resource management (organizational development & change, conflict management, and workplace policies for HIV/AIDS), strategic planning, marketing and management of the cultural industries, events management, and policy formulation and evaluation. She has worked extensively with a wide cross section of public sector enterprises, civil society organisations and private agencies at the local, regional and international levels.
She coordinates the Arts & Cultural Enterprise Management postgraduate programme at the University of the West Indies, and also lectures in Tourism Management, Cultural Studies, and the Master of Marketing programmes at Cave Hill and St Augustine. Since 2005 she has facilitated in the Event Management certificate programme at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business.
