Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean is a
Barbadian politician who served as her country's
Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2018.
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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.China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, where Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford served as the first resident Ambassador to that country.
See also
* List of foreign ministers in 2017
* List of current foreign ministers
References
External links
Photo of Minister Senator Maxine McClean at the U.N.
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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