Dr. Cleghorn is a Trinidad-born US Citizen who obtained his initial medical training at the University of the West Indies in 1982. He is trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases and completed his fellowship at the US National Institutes of Health at the National Cancer Institute. He also holds a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology & Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (Alpha Delta Omega). He has lived in Washington DC for many years. He is currently Global Head, Health Practice at Palladium - a global consulting and international development firm with a multi-disciplinary group of experts based in the USA, UK and over 40 countries around the world, implementing a wide range of health and social programmes in developed and developing countries. Dr. Cleghorn has over 30 years of experience in international development, research and programme implementation, including extensive collaboration with the Medical Research Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago and the University of the West Indies, where he served as external examiner. His career includes significant tenures at the National Institutes of Health (NCI), Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland Medical Center/Institute of Human Virology.
He is an expert on health systems and population health with a focus on infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS (having received numerous awards for outstanding contributions), pathogenesis, surveillance and epidemiology, clinical vaccine trials and training for capacity building for best practice. He serves as an expert reviewer for several renowned publications and is Chair of a NIH special study section for the HIV Clinical Trials Units. He has published extensively on HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Dr. Cleghorn‟s commitment to Caribbean development is unquestionable and he brings to the Board a full appreciation of the importance of evidence-based laboratory and medical decision-making and the experience of managing and growing a major Foundation.
Mr Dupres is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and a Chemical Engineer with 44 years of experience in the Energy Sector. He is the current Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (TTBS) and has also served as the Executive Director of the TTBS, the President and Managing Director of Petrotrin as well as the Chairman of the National Petroleum Marketing Co. Mr. Dupres also serves on several Boards in the private Sector. With his training and skills in chemical and general engineering technology, business development, human resource development, project management, marketing, corporate planning and governance, Mr Dupres brings his wide business experience and his extensive knowledge of and interest in standards development and enforcement, to the Board.
Ingrid Lashley retired from active employment in July 2017 as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Trinidad and Tobago Mortgage Finance Company Limited. Prior to joining TTMF, Ingrid spent eighteen (18) years at a multinational bank in various senior positions in financial control, private banking, trusteeships and merchant banking, exiting at the General Manager level.
Ms Lashley is the holder of a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Accounting and Finance) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and also carries the designations of Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and Chartered Accountant. Ms Lashley is currently the Chairman of the Bourse Securities Group and National Enterprises Limited, in which capacity she sits on the Boards of the Investee Companies. She also holds directorships in Eco-Industrial Development Company of Tobago Limited, and two (2) other publicly traded companies. Ms. Lashley serves as a member of the Licensing Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago.
Despite her demanding professional life, Ingrid finds time for involvement in the culture and social life of Trinidad and Tobago, the Board of Management of her alma mater, Bishop Anstey High School and Rainbow Rescue, a Home of Hope for displaced boys.
Reiba Harper is qualified to practice in England and Wales, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago and has over ten (10) years experience in the legal field. Reiba acquired general practice experience in law practices based in Jamaica and thereafter worked in in-house roles in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Reiba’s general practice experience exposed her to litigious matters in the area of breach of contract, landlord and tenant, recovery of debt and commercial contract matters. In Reiba’s in-house role in Jamaica she was employed as the Legal Officer for a general insurance company and was responsible for providing advice on various policy issues, negotiating settlements and acting as Defence Counsel in trial matters on behalf of the insurance company to name a few. During her time in this role, she was also selected to sit on the Insurance Association of Jamaica’s panel of Arbitrators. In Trinidad and Tobago, Reiba’s in-house role was in the area of risk management and compliance. In this latter role, Reiba was the CARICOM Risk Management Manager within a global audit firm. Reiba’s responsibilities included the preparation and/or vetting of various contracts, providing advice on auditor independence matters and management of the firm’s internal compliance audit. At present, Reiba is in private practice in Trinidad with regional collaboration on certain matters. Reiba brings to the Board a varied palate of experience as Legal Secretary.
Dr. Stephen King is a pathologist and former Chief Medical Officer. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and an International Fellow of the College of American Pathologists. He practices Pathology in Saint Lucia and serves as a pathologist for Anguilla, Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands. He was one of the architects of the Saint Lucia Health Sector Reform Proposals 2000, the Universal Health Care Proposal of 2003, and the National Strategic Plan for Health 2006-2011. In 2008 he received the award of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contribution to Medicine. He was one of the co-founders and the first chairman of the AIDS Action Foundation and one of the co-founders and one of the current directors of RISE (St.Lucia) Inc. He is Chairman of the Caribbean Med Labs Foundation and the Laboratory Director and major shareholder of Laboratory Services and Consultation Ltd. He was an appointed Independent Senator 2012-2016. In 2019 he received the national award of the Saint Lucia Cross for his contribution to society.