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New CEO, UWI Consulting Company

For Release Upon Receipt - September 11, 2013

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad & Tobago – Professor E. Nigel Harris, Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) and Chairman of the Board of The UWI Consulting Company, has announced that Dr Keith Nurse assumed responsibilities as Executive Director of The UWI Consulting Company, effective August 1, 2013.

The UWI Consulting Company is the entity through which The UWI provides consulting services regionally and internationally. Dr Nurse will be assisted by Deputy Director Professor Claremont Kirton as they work to strengthen UWI Consulting as a dynamic portal through which the expertise of UWI faculty, alumni and affiliates can be accessed for consultancies in a wide variety of areas.

Prior to joining UWI Consulting, Dr Nurse served as a consultant and advisor to several governments and regional organizations, including the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the Caribbean Export Development Agency and the Caribbean Tourism Organization.  He also served previously at international organizations including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He is the incumbent World Trade Organization Chair at The UWI and former Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

He has published scholarly articles and books on a broad range of topics including global political economy, diasporas, creative economy and climate change, and served on the editorial boards of several academic journals.  Dr Nurse is a former President of the Association of Caribbean Economists and a founding member of the recently established World Economics Association.

Professor Claremont Kirton is Professor of Development Economics in the Department of Economics at The UWI’s Mona Campus, Jamaica. His academic research and policy oriented analytical work are concentrated on issues related to Caribbean economic development. He has researched and published in the area of banking and finance, dealing with indigenous banking, non-bank financial intermediaries (credit unions, housing finance institutions), financial sector crises and informal finance. This research work has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed studies, reports and organised activities on issues of major importance for the Jamaican economy and the wider Caribbean region.

Professor Kirton has provided advisory and consulting services to regional and international agencies such as the Inter-American Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, and the European Union. 

The UWI Consulting Company was formed in 2008 and is registered in Jamaica and Saint Lucia. 

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About The UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

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