Damien Hughes is a former General Secretary of the

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. He held the position between January 2012 and August 2015, he was replaced by Antiguan

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. In October 2011, he was charged by

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of violating the FIFA Code of Ethics but was cleared of any wrongdoing, making him one of only two persons ruled not to have committed any violations. Hughes, on a tennis scholarship was captain of the Morehouse College tennis team and had been selected for the Eastern Caribbean

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team on several occasions. He earned a degree in Political Science whilst at Morehouse College. He was the secretary and public relations officer of the OECS Tennis Players Union. He earned master's degree in Environmental Studies with a focus on the "Development of Sustainable Tourism Policies in Caribbean Small Island Developing States" from

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in Canada. He served as Director of Franchise Operations at Caribbean Cable Communications in Anguilla until 2010.

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