Profile of the Honourable Winston Dookeran

The Minister of Foreign Affairs

The Honourable Winston Dookeran Minister of Foreign Affairs was appointed on 25th June, 2012.

Previous to this appointment, he served for two years as the Minister of Finance in the Peoples Partnership Government which came into power on 24th May 2010.

Minister Dookeran spent some fifteen years as a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies.

He was a former Minister of Planning and Mobilization in 1986 and also served as Acting Prime Minister.

Minister Dookeran has worked as a Senior Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC).

He served as a member of the Executive Board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and as Governor of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

Minister Dookeran is also a former Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) having served between 1997 to 2002.

The Minister attended the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, where he graduated with a BSc. in Economics.

It was there that he made his first entry into politics and served as the President of the University of Manitoba Students' Union.

He subsequently attended the London School of Economics, where he obtained his Masters Degree in Economics.