Pauline Allen-Dean is a former banker in
The Bahamas. She was the first woman to become manager of a commercial bank and the first woman to serve as managing director of a commercial bank.
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Life
Born Pauline Allen, she completed a diploma in banking from the Institute of Bankers
The London Institute of Banking & Finance is the oldest training and professional body for banking and financial services in England and Wales, and works internationally with partners to establish ethical and professional standards across the ...
in London in 1973. In 1983, she was named a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
The London Institute of Banking & Finance is the oldest training and professional body for banking and financial services in England and Wales, and works internationally with partners to establish ethical and professional standards across the ...
. She was elected president of the Bahamas Institute of Bankers in 1998.[
Allen-Dean also served as deputy president of the ]Bahamas Red Cross
The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the arch ...
society. She was also founding president of the Consumer Protection Association in The Bahamas and of the Women Against Rape association. For a time, she contributed a column "One Woman's Point of View" to the ''Nassau Guardian''.[ In December 2011, she was named to the Public Service Commission of The Bahamas.]Algernon Allen Algernon may refer to:
* Algernon (name), a given name (includes a list of people and characters with the name)
* Algernon Township, Custer County, Nebraska
See also
* Treaty of Algeron, an agreement signed by the United Federation of Planets a ...
, a former member of the Bahamian cabinet.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bahamian bankers
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