For­mer Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Mar­i­ano Browne, has been ap­point­ed the new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer (CEO) of the Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness (ALJ-GSB).

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment from the or­gan­i­sa­tion, his ap­point­ment went in­to ef­fect from 1st Sep­tem­ber 2020.

“In this role, Mr. Browne will be ac­count­able for the over­all man­age­ment of the School, en­sur­ing its self-suf­fi­cien­cy and self-sus­tain­abil­i­ty. He will lead the in­sti­tu­tion in­to the next phase of its de­vel­op­ment,” the re­lease stat­ed.

Mar­i­ano Browne is known na­tion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly for serv­ing as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, as well as Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance, in the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go from 2007 to 2010, the sec­ond Man­ning Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The state­ment went on to note that Mar­i­ano Browne holds a B.Sc. De­gree in Eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, an MBA in Fi­nance from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wales/Man­ches­ter Busi­ness School and is a Fel­low of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Cer­ti­fied Char­tered Ac­coun­tants.

“He has had a long and dis­tin­guished ca­reer in the lo­cal and re­gion­al bank­ing sec­tors, and has ex­pe­ri­ence in suc­cess­ful cor­po­rate turn­arounds, and cur­rent­ly sits on a num­ber of lo­cal pri­vate sec­tor Boards,” it said.

“Mr. Browne has been a mem­ber of the School’s ad­junct fac­ul­ty since 2014,” the re­lease added. “The man­age­ment and staff wel­comes Mr. Mar­i­ano Browne to the Lok Jack GSB fam­i­ly and look for­ward to his lead­er­ship to trans­form the in­sti­tu­tion.”