Announcing our First Batch of Speakers and online tickets
As anticipation builds for this year’s conference centred around the theme of Off Record, we are thrilled to announce our first batch of speakers for TEDxPortofSpain 14.10.15 at the Queen’s Hall Auditorium!
We also have a limited number of student tickets available at $200. Currently only available online.
Early Bird Discount Code: OffRec15
Hashtag #TEDxPOS15
Afra Raymond
Afra Raymond is a Professional Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Managing Director of Raymond and Pierre Limited. He is well-known for insightful commentary in press and broadcast media throughout the Caribbean. His special areas of interest include real estate, property development, land-use planning, property taxation, property financing and the 2009 bailout of the CL Financial group. Raymond is the President of the Joint Consultative Council for the Construction Industry (JCC) which is the umbrella group representing the interests of Architects, Surveyors, Engineers, Town Planners, Contractors and Facilities Manager. Raymond is also a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute. He has written extensively on white collar crime, good governance, national development and financial matters, in particular, the CL Financial fiasco. Raymond is a transparency activist whose work can be found on www.raymondandpierre.com and www.afraraymond.wordpress.com.
His 2012 TEDxPortofSpain talk: The three sides of corruption has been viewed more than 750,000 times since being published.
Nimah Muwakil-Zakuri
Nimah Muwakil-Zakuri.is currently the Curator of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago’s Money Museum and Art Collection. She is responsible for the museum which is the main outreach arm of the institution, its programming and development as well as the bank’s 50 year old art collection which was started in the 1960’s.
Nimah graduated from Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba in 2007. As an IVLP alumnus in Cultural Heritage Preservation and a recent recipient of a Getty Fellowship, she attended the 2015 American Alliance of Museum’s Annual Conference and participated in the training sessions on Leadership in Museums with other curators from around the world. I.M.P.A.C.T (Independent Muslim Professional Acting Together) was co-founded in 2012 and the Trinidad and Tobago Alliance of Museums (TTAM) co-founded 2014 both by Nimah.
Her deep interest in art and matters of heritage has enabled her introspection on her own unique history as a child of the “Jamaat” and 1990. The journey is a personal one, where she will attempt to document and later tell the stories that no one knows exist. It is her hope that her story will resonate not just within her immediate community, but with a wider audience.
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