Contributors

• Author: Kenneth Hall/Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang
• Pages: 525-535

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The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur

The Rt. Hon. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados has served in a

number of strategic positions in his country, Barbados and in Jamaica. These

include Chief Economic Planner and Director of Economics, Bauxite Institute

(Jamaica). He represented Jamaica on UNCTAD’s Inter-Governmental Group

of Exports on the Transfer of Technology, was a member of the OAS Task

Force on Technology Transfer in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Technology

Policy Studies Project and Board of Directors of Jamaica’s Scientific Research

Council. Prime Minister Arthur joined the Institute of Social and Economic

Research, University of the West Indies (U.W.I.) Cave Hill Campus, in 1983

and undertook research for publication into the balance of payments

stabilisation policies in Barbados. He was consultant to the Organisation of

American States (OAS) in 1975; to the Ministry of Housing and Lands,

Barbados, from 1983 to 1984 and to Caribbean Community (CARICOM),

1992.

The Honourable Prime Minister’s political career began when he was

appointed to the Barbados Senate in 1983; he was elected to the House of

Assembly in 1984, and served as Leader of the Opposition between 1993 and

1994. He as held the position of Chairman of the Commonwealth Ministerial

Group on Small States, Chairman of the Global Conference on Small States,

and Co-chairman of the Global Forum to deal with the OECD Harmful Tax

Competition Initiative. His publications include “The Commercialisation of

Technology in Jamaica”, 1979; “Energy and Mineral Resource Development

in the Jamaica Bauxite Industry” 1981; and “The IMF and Economic

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