TEDxPortofSpain Announces our Second Batch of Speakers
As anticipation builds for this year’s conference, we are thrilled to announce our second batch of speakers for TEDxPortofSpain 12.12.12. at the Central Bank Auditorium! Have you requested your invitation yet? To request a ticket, please fill out our form. Our first set of tickets were announced on Wednesday, thank you to all of our applicants. We heard that some of you had trouble requesting the tickets, so please note that the deadline to request a ticket has been extended and the attendees will continue to be announced.
We have an amazing lineup of speakers, starting with:
- Afra Raymond
- Gervase Warner
- Sunity Maharaj
- Patrice Grell-Yursik
- Christopher Laird
- Peter Douglas Weller
Mr. Afra Raymond is a Chartered Surveyor and Managing Director of Raymond & Pierre Limited. He holds a B.Sc. in Land Administration and is also a Professional Member of the RICS with specializations in Valuation, Planning & Development and Property Finance. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in January 2011. With qualifications in Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution, Mr. Raymond’s experience spans the fields of property valuation, project appraisal and management, programme management and advanced planning for the long-term and large-scale redevelopment of housing estates and commercial complexes.
He has served on a number of Boards in various positions including Executive Member of the Federation of Black Housing Organizations (FBHO) in London, Board member of the Trinidad Building & Loan Association (TBLA), Director of EPL Properties Limited (EPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eastern Credit Union (ECU) and Immediate Past-President of the Institute of Surveyors of Trinidad & Tobago (ISTT). Mr. Raymond is also a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute. Mr. Raymond is a well-known commentator, with occasional columns in the Express, and he has also contributed to the T&T Review. He has written the ‘Property Matters’ column in The Business Guardian from January 2004 to January 2012. In addition to professional commentary, Mr. Raymond has written extensively on white collar crime, good governance, national development and financial matters, in particular, the CL Financial fiasco. Indeed, he has participated in several discussions on these matters on both television and radio. His commentaries can be accessed and comments made at www.afraraymond.com.
Sunity Maharaj, the Managing Director of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies (LBIWI) and editor of The Trinidad and Tobago Review, is a media consultant, journalism lecturer and head of her own multi-media production company. The former editor-in-chief of the Trinidad Express, News Director of TV6 and Group Executive for Editorial & Content Development at One Caribbean Media, she coordinates the Caribbean Civilization required core course, in which Trinity-in-Trinidad partners with the LBIWI. This course includes lectures by leading Trinidad intellectuals, artists, and other figures as well as field trips to sites throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
E. Gervase Warner is the President and Group CEO of the Neal & Massy Group of Companies. Prior to and throughout his appointment in 2009, he also served as the Executive Chairman of the Group’s Energy & Industrial Gases Business Unit. In 2004, the year in which he joined the Neal & Massy Group, he was also appointed as a Director of Neal & Massy Holdings Limited. Mr. Warner holds an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and prior to joining the Neal & Massy Group, he was a partner with the international management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company Inc., where he last led the firm’s client services in the Caribbean region.
He has extensive experience in the financial, ITC and petroleum sectors and currently serves on the Trinidad & Tobago Board of Citigroup Merchant Bank Limited and the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business. Mr. Warner also holds BSE Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and has over 20 years of international experience working in the USA, Latin America and the Caribbean. A past pupil of St. Mary’s College, Mr. Warner received an Additional Scholarship from the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in 1983.
We will continue to announce speakers, and tickets. Looking forward to seeing you there!.
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