Speaker Bios - Dr. Terrence Farrell

 

Terrence W. Farrell has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors. He joined the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago in 1980 and was Director of Research (1984-1989) and later Deputy Governor (1992-1995) where he was involved in key policy initiatives including the debt restructuring and IMF programmes in 1987-1991 period, exchange control liberalization and the flotation of the Trinidad and Tobago dollar in 1993 and the central bank's intervention of troubled financial institutions in the period 1986-1993. Within the private sector, he was Regional Manager for a regional IT Services company from 1995 to1997, Group Executive Director at Guardian Holdings Limited from 1998-2005, responsible for Strategy and Business Development and President of Guardian General Limited from 2005-2006. He was President of Business Insight Limited a strategy and business development consulting firm from 2006-2008 and Group Chief Executive Officer of One Caribbean Media Limited from 2008 to 2010. He now works in the areas of economics, strategy consulting and business development and legal advice and mediation. He is a director of Republic Bank Limited, Eastern Caribbean Financial Holdings Limited, TATIL and TATIL Life and CREDI, the Catholic tertiary education institute.

Dr. Farrell studied Economics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and at the University of Toronto where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1979, and also holds an LL.B (London) degree and the LEC from the Hugh Wooding Law School. He was admitted to practice law in Barbados and in Trinidad and Tobago in 2013 and is a Certified Mediator. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance of Trinidad and Tobago, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute. He has published several scholarly articles in Economics, written a book on Central Banking in Trinidad and Tobago, and co-edited a book on Caribbean Monetary Integration. His latest book The Underachieving Society: Development Policy and Strategy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008 was published by UWI Press in 2012. He has served on several government-appointed committees addressing a variety of public policy issues, most recently the Vision 2020 Core Group and the Task Force on the Future of BWIA.