Brian Manning is a Trinidad and Tobago politician representing the

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(PNM). He has served as a

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in the

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for San Fernando East since the 2020 general election. He is the current Minister in the Ministry of Finance.

Early life

Manning is the eldest son of

Patrick Manning Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning (17 August 1946 – 2 July 2016) was a Trinidadian politician who was the fourth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; his terms ran from 17 December 1991 to 9 November 1995 and from 24 December 2001 to 26 Ma ...

, former Prime Minister for Trinidad and Tobago, and

Hazel Manning Hazel Anne Marie Manning is a former Trinidad and Tobago politician. She entered the Senate as a People's National Movement Senator after the 2001 general election. Senator Manning served as Minister of Education of Trinidad and Tobago and subse ...

, former Minister of Education and Minister of Local Government. He has one brother, David. He lived in

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for several years growing up. He received a bachelors' of art in economics and a bachelors' of science in information systems management from the

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. He also obtained a masters' of science in finance and asset management from the University of Maryland and a masters' of business administration in international business and marketing from the

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. He received a certificate in advanced business Spanish from the Venezuelan embassy in Trinidad and Tobago.

Career

Manning was previously a business analyst at Massy Energy Services Ltd and an investment banker at RBC Caribbean. He also worked as a small, medium enterprise financing officer at the

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, where he focused on businesses in the Caribbean and Central America. He founded Shining World Consultancy Ltd in 2006 and acted as executive director. He has held the position of equity analyst at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School Global Equity Fund and served as editor of the Business Guardian for six months.

Political career

He contested the constituency of San Fernando East in the 2020 general election, the seat that his father held from 1971 to 2015. He was nominated by the People's National Movement screening committee in May 2020, receiving 14 of 24 votes from the party's executive and beating the incumbent MP, Randall Mitchell, for the nomination. He pinpointed youth unemployment and aging infrastructure as two areas of focus within the district. He ran against Monifa Russell Andrews from the

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. He was appointed as a Minister in the Ministry of Finance on 19 August 2020.

Personal life

Manning married

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, a former media executive, at Stollmeyer's Castle in

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on 12 December 2020. He served as president of the Trinidad and Tobago Basketball Federation in 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Manning, Brian Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the House of Representatives (Trinidad and Tobago) People's National Movement politicians University of Maryland, College Park alumni University of Miami alumni 21st-century Trinidad and Tobago politicians