Raziah Ahmed is a former Senator of the Republic of

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...

Political involvement

Former

President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago The President of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago is generally elected from the government benches. The president chairs debates in the chamber of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago and stands in for the country's president during periods of ...

- 2015, she was the second woman in the history of Trinidad and Tobago to act as President of her country. She is a former Minister of State in the Ministry of Gender Youth and Child Development. She is the author of a continuing series of Children's books: the Nobel, Gifted Prophet series, published in the USA. Currently she is a Part Time Lecturer at a popular Business School. Senator Ahmed is
Motivational Speaker
and Financial Planning Consultant (RFC until 2008). She received her

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from 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 ...

, Institute of Business. She was a Columnist with the Sunday Guardian of Trinidad and Tobago and with the Sunday Newsday. Her column
Money Matters
and Wallet Watch dealt with financial advice. Senator Ahmed was the President of TTAIFA (Trinidad and Tobago Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors), was a Board Member of CARAIFA, where she served as Chairman of the CARAIFA FOUNDATION. (Caribbean Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors), has 12 years consecutive membership of MDRT (Million Dollar Round Table), with 8 Court of the Table memberships and 1 Top of the Table. She was the first female Agency Manager at Colonial Life Insurance Company Ltd. Raziah Ahmed née Baksh attended Iere High School, and was Valedictorian 1975 and awarded the Iere Gold Medal for Most Outstanding All Round Student. She studied at Mona Jamaica, under a scholarship from Trinidad Tesoro Petroleum Co. the forerunner company to Petrotrin.

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