Press Release
UWI Launches Consulting Company
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| Chief Executive of UWI Consulting Carleen Gardner (left) makes a point to Professor E. Nigel Harris, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), and Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal of the Cave Hill campus of the UWI - during the launch of the company at Hilton Barbados, yesterday, March 5, 2008. |
Barbados, March 5, 2008: The University of the West Indies (UWI) today (March 5, 2008) launched UWI Consulting, a subsidiary which draws on the expertise at the University and provides advisory and capacity-building services across the region and internationally.
Declared launched by the Hon. Ronald Jones, Barbados’ Minister of Education & Human Resources Development, at a ceremony at the Barbados Hilton, UWI Consulting offers strategic advice, consultancy and related services on all aspects of management, development and innovation to businesses, government, international agencies and community organizations.
The company focuses on policy analysis and development, programme management and project implementation, governance and organization management in a wide range of disciplines.
Noting that the UWI is by far the largest and most significant concentration of advanced knowledge and technical expertise in the Caribbean region, Chairman of the Board of UWI Consulting, UWI Vice Chancellor, Professor E. Nigel Harris, said “we want to be the first point of call for Caribbean businesses, governments and agencies that need in-depth expertise and advice on management, planning and development issue.”
Professor Harris noted that, “UWI has produced most of the region’s Prime Ministers, has helped to shape the politics, culture and identity of the Caribbean and boasts thousands of graduates who are influential in every walk of life throughout the region and the Diaspora.”
Professor Harris said that , “no other organization knows the Caribbean so well, or is so well-connected, or has done so much to influence its development” and that it is this resource that the UWI would like to make available to everyone who needs it.
The launch event was also addressed by: Dr. Compton Bourne, President of The Caribbean Development Bank; Mr. Winston Cox, Alternate Executive Director for The Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, The Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. and Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal, UWI, Cave Hill.
Other members of the Board of Directors of UWI Consulting are:
- Mr. Gregory Shirley, Retired Partner, KPMG Caribbean
- Professor Wayne Hunte, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Research
- Professor Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Principal, UWI Cave Hill
- Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Principal, Open Campus, UWI
- Professor Gordon Shirley, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Principal, UWI, Mona
- Professor Clement Sankat, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Principal, UWI, St. Augustine
- Mr. Winston Bayley, Director of Finance & Bursar, UWI
- Ms. Margaret Young, CEO, Millsquare Group of Consultants, New Rochelle, NY
- Mr. Dodridge Miller, Sagicor, Barbados
Mrs. Carleen Gardner is CEO of UWI Consulting, which has its headquarters in Castries, St. Lucia and offices at Mona, St. Augustine and Cave Hill.