Gale Tracy Christiane Rigobert is a
Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
n politician, former Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development.
She is the former representative for Micoud North constituency in the
House of Assembly
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Historically, in British Crown colonies as the colony gained more internal responsible governme ...
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Biography
She served as deputy political leader of the
United Workers Party. She won her seat in the
2011 general election.
Rigobert was a member of the
Saint Lucian Senate. She is a former lecturer at the
University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in th ...
.
On the 1st February 2014, she became Leader of the Opposition for
the United Workers Party. In June 2016, she was appointed Minister of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development.
When Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations, and Sustainable Development, she assumed her seat as the Co-Chair of the Governing Board of the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP). The REAP brings together a range of stakeholders across the climate, humanitarian, and development communities with the aim of making 1 billion people safer from disaster by 2025.
Dr Rigobert is the author of the book – “Bridging the Digital Divide? Prospects for Caribbean Development in the New Techno-economic Paradigm”.
References
External links
Dr. Gale T C Rigobert biographyon the United Workers Party website archived fro
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Members of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia
Members of the Senate of Saint Lucia
United Workers Party (Saint Lucia) politicians
Academic staff of the University of the West Indies
University of the West Indies alumni
21st-century Saint Lucian women politicians
21st-century Saint Lucian politicians
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