Pamela Coke-Hamilton

Pamela Coke-Hamilton is a Lawyer and Caribbean trade expert. Since 2019 she has been the director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's division concerned with International Trade and Commodities.

Pamela Coke-Hamilton
EducationUniversity of the West Indies and Georgetown University School of Law
EmployerUNCTAD
Known fordirector of UNCTAD's International Trade and Commodities.

Life

Coke-Hamilton went to school in Jamaica at Manchester High School in Mandeville, Jamaica.

She attended the University of the West Indies where she graduated in Economics and International Relations. She went on to study in Washington DC where she became at Doctor of Law at Georgetown University School of Law.[1]

She began her career in Jamaica's Ministry of Foreign Affair and Foreign Trade.[2]

She was Director of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the OAS from 2007[3] to 2009.[2] In 2008 she gave evidence to the United States International Trade Commission about Caribbean trade.[4]

Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Prime Minister Mia Mottley and UNCTAD's Isabelle Durant

Coke-Hamilton was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies in recognition of the help she had given in helping them to establish a masters course in International Trade Policy.[1]

She established a "Caribbean exporter of the Year"[5] and a "Women Empowered through Export Platform" whilst leading the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).[2]

In 2019 after eight years she left her position as head of (CEDA) to become the director of UNCTAD's International Trade and Commodities. She warned in November of that year concerning the lose-lose trade war that was emerging between the USA and China. It was damaging to all the consumers involved and it "compromises the stability of the global economy and future growth".[6]

Publications include
  • Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean: Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction, 2009, World Bank (co-author). [7]

References
  1. "Ms. Pamela Coke-Hamilton". Alumni Online Community. 2018-07-04. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  2. "Jamaica Observer Limited". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  3. Inter American Development Bank (2006-09-14). Mobilizing Aid For Trade: Focus on Latin America and the Caribbean: Proceedings of the Regional Review Meeting. Inter-American Development Bank. p. 220.
  4. United States International Trade Commission (2008). Year in Review. United States International Trade Commission. p. 18.
  5. "Pamela Coke-Hamilton Leaves Caribbean Export Development Agency". South Florida Caribbean News. 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  6. "UN study: US consumers bear brunt of tariffs against China". chinadailyhk. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  7. Bank, World (2009-07-17). Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean: Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction. World Bank Publications. ISBN 978-0-8213-8019-2.
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