April 25, 2016: The Economic Development Advisory Board is pleased to advise that Cabinet has agreed to the appointment of two additional members who are currently based overseas. They are Professor Godfrey Mungal and Dr. Keith Nurse.
Professor Godfrey Mungal was born and raised in Trinidad, and attended St. Mary’s College. He received his undergraduate education in Engineering Science at the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc. 1975, Hons.) and his graduate education in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1983). He also served on the faculty of the University of the West Indies from 1975-76 as a lecturer in Mathematics, and as a post-doctoral research fellow from 1983-85 at the California Institute of Technology, before joining Stanford University. He has served as director of the High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory from 1993-97, the Associate Chair for Student Services in Mechanical Engineering from 1997-2001, the Associate Dean for Graduate Policy from 2002-2005 and a Stanford Resident Fellow from 2001-2007. He became Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in 2007, and continues his research at Stanford. Since September 2007 he serves as the Sobrato Professor and Dean of Engineering at Santa Clara University.
Dr. Keith Nurse is Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies and the World Trade Organization Chair at The University of the West Indies. He is the former Executive Director of the UWI Consulting Inc. and Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services, UWI, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He is also teaching faculty at the Arthur Lok Jack School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago. He has published and served as a consultant on a broad range of topics including trade policy, aid for trade, Diasporas, creative economy, tourism, innovation governance, global value chains and climate change. He has recently been appointed to the International Union of the Scientific Study of Populations panel on “Population and Development in Small Island Developing States” and to the “Committee for Development Policy”, a subsidiary body of the United Nations Economic and Social Council which reviews the status of Least Developed Countries.
In welcoming the new members to the Board, Chairman of the Board, Dr. Terrence Farrell indicated that Professor Mungal would bring the very best scientific and engineering expertise and a wealth of information and contacts that would support policy formation on innovation and Research and Development in Science and Technology as well as engineering-based projects, while Dr. Nurse was well-known regionally and internationally for his work on tourism, the creative and cultural industries, and on the diaspora, which are all areas of focus for the Board. Both new members would bring fresh perspectives and thinking to the work of the Board as it formulates and implements the country’s diversification and transformation strategies.
The new additions bring the total membership of the Board to eleven.
April 25th 2016.
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Dr. Terrence Farrell
Chairman
Economic Development Advisory Board
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