Emily is a finance and accounting expert with over 30 years of experience and advanced qualifications in strategic financial management and corporate social and environmental accounting and reporting. Emily has a PhD in Accounting (Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting) from the University of Dundee, Scotland (2001). She is a Certified Professional Accountant with CPA Canada having completed the Certified Management Accounting qualifications in 2000. In 2014, Emily was assessed and granted Fellowship status from CPA Canada. Additionally, Emily earned an MPhil Finance from the University of Cambridge England and a BSc Accounting (First Class Honours) from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Barbados.
She is the Deputy Principal of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Global Campus (formerly the Open Campus). She has worked with The UWI for over 30 years, commencing in 1991 as a Lecturer in Accounting at the UWIs Cave Hill Campus in Barbados where she served for 17 years. Emily has served at the Global Campus for 13 years. Emily served as a Government Senator and Minister of Planning, Housing and the Environment in the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (2007-2010). She has worked with The Leadership Firm as a Consultant on Strategic Planning and leadership coaching.
Emily is a scholarship winner with the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the University of Dundee International Students’ Scholarship. Her publications and research work focus on, inter alia, critical accounting research, CSR/ESG, ISO 26000 and strategic financial management. She is a member of the voluntary Stakeholders Global Network for ISO 26000 and recently invited by the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standard to participate in Trinidad and Tobago’s National Mirror Committee in the area of Governance of organizations.
Emily has a passion to advance responsible leadership and good governance in institutions, especially in the finance sector and among accounting and finance professionals, for a just and fair society; she does this through her training interventions. An advocate for lifelong learning, Emily has earned three Certificates from the UN System Staff College programmes, with the latest being July 2023 for the intense, one week synchronous course titled Governance for Sustainable Development. This allows her to competently convey up to date materials for training, coaching and consultancies. She recently delivered training on Sustainable Ocean Financing to senior public officers in Barbados and served on a panel for the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards’ webinar for the topic The “S” in ESG focusing on ISO 26000.
