Elizabeth Anne Carriere is a former British civil servant working in international development. From 2015 to 2018, she served as
Governor of Montserrat
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Biography
Carriere has an MSc in Public Policy and Management from the
University of London
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and has studied the sociology of adult education at the
University of British Columbia
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and anthropology at the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Adrian Davis, Carriere was a senior civil servant with the Department for International Development (DFID). She was posted to DFID Indonesia, and has subsequently served as head of DFID in Jamaica, Bangladesh, the Caribbean regional office, Rwanda, and South Sudan.
In March 2015, it was announced that Carriere would succeed Adrian Davis as Governor of Montserrat. She is the second female governor after
Deborah Barnes-Jones
Deborah Elizabeth Vavasseur Barnes (born 6 October 1956), known since her marriage as Deborah Barnes-Jones, is a British diplomat and administrator.
Career
Barnes joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1980. She was posted to the British ...
(2004–2007). Carriere was sworn in at
Government House
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on 5 August 2015. In August 2017, she announced that she would resign from her post as Governor and from the British civil service in early January 2018 to take up an international development position in Africa with a
non-governmental organization
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. The British Government announced that she would be replaced by
Andrew Pearce
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After leaving her role in Montserrat, Carriere went on to take up the position of Managing Deputy Regional Director for the Great Lakes of Central Africa with CARE, a leading humanitarian organisation. Carriere led the country operations in Uganda, Rwanda, DRC and Burundi.