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Renée Anne Shirley is a Jamaican financial consultant with international investment management, commercial banking, trade finance, government, non-profit and sport administration experience. For over three decades she has worked extensively throughout the Caribbean region and the Americas on a number of interesting assignments for a wide range of clientele in the public and private sectors, as well as the international donor agencies. Next she was involved in setting up a non-profit education foundation, starting in 2013, honouring the legacy of her father, the renowned Jamaican educator, Renford Archibald Shirley.
Prior to this she served for a short stint as the Executive Director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (2012-2013) and as CEO of the Jamaica Rugby Football Union – the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Jamaica (2009-2012). She also worked as Senior Advisor to Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller (2003-2007). In that capacity she was responsible for leading and coordinating the development (from inception) of Jamaica’s Anti-Doping in Sport Programme and for handling matters related to the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Affairs.
Miss Shirley has held appointments on several boards and on regional and local taskforces. She is the former Managing Director (and Chief Country Officer) for CIBC Jamaica Limited and former head of the Eagle Unit Trust. She was a Founding Director of the Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children which was launched in June 2011 in St. Vincent -- this is an outgrowth from her work as a member of the Regional Taskforce working with the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) to develop the way forward for its Caribbean Child Support Initiative (CCSI). At inception FDCC had activities in four of the OECS countries. In Jamaica she also served on a number of public sector boards including the National Insurance Fund, Resort Beach Development Limited, the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, the Jamaica Fire Brigade, the Board of Visitors of the Bellevue Hospital, and the National Solid Waste Management Authority as well as all of its subsidiaries. Miss Shirley was a member of some important Jamaican Government taskforces including the Joint Working Committee for the Monitoring of the General Consumption Tax and the Taskforce on the Role of Public Sector Development Banks in a Liberalized Economy in Jamaica.
She had the distinct honour of being elected as one of four Vice-Chairpersons for the First Session of the Conference of Parties to the International Convention on Doping in Sport, held at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, in February 2007. And she served the Jamaica Football Federation in several capacities under two successive administrations - as a member of its Appeal Board, Finance Committee and Youth Committee.
From 1996-2000 she was the Chancellor's Representative on the University of the West Indies' Mona Campus Council, the UWI Finance & General Purpose Committee (UWI F&GPC), the UWI Investment Committee, the Mona Campus F&GPC and Audit Committees, as well as a member of the UWI Advisory Group re Funding of Infrastructural Requirements by University Development Bonds (1997-1998), and a member of the UWI's Working Group on Finance & Planning - Chancellor's Commission on Governance (1995-1996).
In 1996 she was appointed a member of the Overseas Examinations Committee's Steering Committee by Jamaica's Minister of Education and from 1996-2000 she served as Chairman of its Development Sub-Committee, and as a member of the Finance Sub-Committee.
Miss Shirley is a proud past student of St. Andrew High School for Girls in Kingston, Jamaica. She received a BA in Economics (with Honors) from Hollins University in Virginia, and an MBA from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, USA. She also pursued an MA in Diplomacy & International Commerce at the Patterson School of Diplomacy & International Commerce, University of Kentucky, and reached the dissertation stage for a Ph.D. in Public Administration (specializing in Public Financial Management) at the James W. Martin School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Kentucky, USA.
Prior to this she served for a short stint as the Executive Director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (2012-2013) and as CEO of the Jamaica Rugby Football Union – the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Jamaica (2009-2012). She also worked as Senior Advisor to Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller (2003-2007). In that capacity she was responsible for leading and coordinating the development (from inception) of Jamaica’s Anti-Doping in Sport Programme and for handling matters related to the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Affairs.
Miss Shirley has held appointments on several boards and on regional and local taskforces. She is the former Managing Director (and Chief Country Officer) for CIBC Jamaica Limited and former head of the Eagle Unit Trust. She was a Founding Director of the Foundation for the Development of Caribbean Children which was launched in June 2011 in St. Vincent -- this is an outgrowth from her work as a member of the Regional Taskforce working with the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) to develop the way forward for its Caribbean Child Support Initiative (CCSI). At inception FDCC had activities in four of the OECS countries. In Jamaica she also served on a number of public sector boards including the National Insurance Fund, Resort Beach Development Limited, the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission, the Jamaica Fire Brigade, the Board of Visitors of the Bellevue Hospital, and the National Solid Waste Management Authority as well as all of its subsidiaries. Miss Shirley was a member of some important Jamaican Government taskforces including the Joint Working Committee for the Monitoring of the General Consumption Tax and the Taskforce on the Role of Public Sector Development Banks in a Liberalized Economy in Jamaica.
She had the distinct honour of being elected as one of four Vice-Chairpersons for the First Session of the Conference of Parties to the International Convention on Doping in Sport, held at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, in February 2007. And she served the Jamaica Football Federation in several capacities under two successive administrations - as a member of its Appeal Board, Finance Committee and Youth Committee.
From 1996-2000 she was the Chancellor's Representative on the University of the West Indies' Mona Campus Council, the UWI Finance & General Purpose Committee (UWI F&GPC), the UWI Investment Committee, the Mona Campus F&GPC and Audit Committees, as well as a member of the UWI Advisory Group re Funding of Infrastructural Requirements by University Development Bonds (1997-1998), and a member of the UWI's Working Group on Finance & Planning - Chancellor's Commission on Governance (1995-1996).
In 1996 she was appointed a member of the Overseas Examinations Committee's Steering Committee by Jamaica's Minister of Education and from 1996-2000 she served as Chairman of its Development Sub-Committee, and as a member of the Finance Sub-Committee.
Miss Shirley is a proud past student of St. Andrew High School for Girls in Kingston, Jamaica. She received a BA in Economics (with Honors) from Hollins University in Virginia, and an MBA from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia, USA. She also pursued an MA in Diplomacy & International Commerce at the Patterson School of Diplomacy & International Commerce, University of Kentucky, and reached the dissertation stage for a Ph.D. in Public Administration (specializing in Public Financial Management) at the James W. Martin School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Kentucky, USA.
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Renée Anne Shirley
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Cell: +1 876 804 4046
Email: [email protected] or
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