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Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean is a Barbadian politician who served as her country's
Minister of Foreign Affairs A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...
from 2008 to 2018.


Biography

McClean is a graduate of 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 ...
. While she was there she received second class honors in Public Administration. McClean was also a lecturer in the Department of Management Studies. In 1999, she established her own consulting firm. A few years later, in January 2008, Maxine was invited to join the Barbados Cabinet as a minister in the Prime Minister's office. Eleven months after this, she was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. McClean opened a new embassy in Brazil and appointed Yvette Goddard as the first ambassador of Barbados to Brazil in 2009. In the same year she addressed the
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. In 2010 McClean opened Barbados' mission to
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, where Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford served as the first resident Ambassador to that country.


See also

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List of foreign ministers in 2017 This is a list of foreign ministers in 2017. Africa * *# Ramtane Lamamra (2013–2017) *# Abdelkader Messahel (2017–2019) * - *#Georges Rebelo Chicoti (2010–2017) *#Manuel Domingos Augusto (2017–2020) * - Aurélien Agbénonci (2016–pre ...
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List of current foreign ministers This is a list of current foreign ministers of the 193 United Nations member states as well as the Holy See (Vatican City) and the State of Palestine. Foreign ministers of sovereign countries with limited recognition, some alternative governmen ...


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Photo of Minister Senator Maxine McClean at the U.N.
{{DEFAULTSORT:McClean, Maxine Pamela Ometa Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Foreign Ministers of Barbados 21st-century Barbadian women politicians 21st-century Barbadian politicians Government ministers of Barbados Female foreign ministers Democratic Labour Party (Barbados) politicians University of the West Indies alumni Ohio University alumni Louisiana State University alumni