Len Ishmael is a St. Lucian development planner and geographer who was the Director General of the

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from 12 May 2003 until the end of December 2013. She was appointed

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in 2013, succeeding

Shirley Skerrit-Andrew Shirley Skerrit-Andrew is an economist and diplomat from St Kitts, who was appointed Ambassador of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to the European Union on 30 October 2008. At her appointment she became the federation's first non-resi ...

. She holds a first degree in geography and economics from the

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, Mona campus, and a doctorate in urban planning and development economics from the University of Philadelphia.Return of a Geography Junkie

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