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Bourne,
Compton - Professor Bourne is a graduate
of the University of London, the University of
Birmingham and the University of the West Indies.
He is currently President of the Caribbean Development
Bank, a post he took up 1 May, 2001.
Prior to this appointment, he was Principal of
the St. Augustine Campus of the University of
the West Indies from 1996-2001, Pro Vice Chancellor
for Planning and Development 1990-1996 and Deputy
Principal of the St. Augustine Campus from 1990-1993.
He held an appointment as Professor of Economics
from 1981-2001 and is now Professor Emeritus of
Economics. |
He is a
Member of the Order of Excellence, the highest honour
of the Republic of Guyana, and is a recipient of
the Caribbean Studies Distinguished Service Award
(1989), The American Foundation for the University
of the West Indies Award for Outstanding Contribution
to the Caribbean, and the National Coalition on
Caribbean Affairs International Service Award (2005).
He is the author or editor of 10 books and more
than 50 scholarly papers in addition to more than
50 research reports and advisory memoranda for
Caribbean Governments, foreign governments and
international development institutions and agencies.
Professor Bourne rose rapidly from an initial
position of Lecturer in 1971 to Senior Research
Fellow in 1975 and full Professor in 1981.
He has advised CARICOM Governments, the Caribbean
Development Bank, the Inter-American Development
Bank, the World Bank and USAID on monetary and
financial market policy in the Caribbean, Uganda,
Zambia, Nigeria and the Philippines, including
contributions to the reform of rural financial
markets in the Caribbean, restructuring of the
Zambian agricultural credit system, agricultural
credit and central banking policy in Nigeria and
restructuring of the Central Bank of the Philippines.
Professor Bourne has been a member of the Board
of Directors of the National Savings Commission
in Jamaica (1975-1980), a Commissioner of the
Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (1981-1983)
and a member of the Board of Directors of the
Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago from 1987-2000,
serving during that period also as Chairman of
the Audit Committee and Chairman of the Personnel
Committee. He is the only Director of the Central
Bank to have been appointed by three consecutive
governments.
Within the private sector, Professor Bourne served
as a Director of the Trinidad Publishing Company
which owns a daily newspaper and several radio
stations. |
