Rena Lalgie is a British civil servant serving as

Governor of Bermuda The Governor of Bermuda (fully the ''Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somers Isles (alias the Islands of Bermuda)'') is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. For the purposes of this a ...

since 2020. She is the first woman, and the first person of African-Caribbean heritage, to be appointed governor of

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.Meet Rena Lalgie, the first female Black Governor of Bermuda after 400 years
''Motivation Africa''. Accessed 24 July 2020.

Career

Lalgie has worked in various roles for the Home Office, the

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, and the

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. She was director of operations at

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, now the

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. She then became head of the

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation An office is a space where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific du ...

(OFSI), created within the

UK Treasury His Majesty's Treasury (HM Treasury), occasionally referred to as the Exchequer, or more informally the Treasury, is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for developing and executing the government's public finance policy and eco ...

in 2016 to implement and enforce

financial sanctions Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted self-governing state, group, or individual. Economic sanctions are not necessarily imposed because of economic circumstances—they may ...

.Mara Lemos Stein
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'', 17 January 2017. Accessed 24 July 2020.

References

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