Gwendoline Williams
Over the past thirty (30) years, Dr. Williams has worked at all levels of the education system in the Caribbean, her last position being that of Head of the Department of Management Studies and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies. Currently, she is an Associate Faculty at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business where she teaches in the Executive and International MBA and the Master in Human Resource Management Programmes; and also heads the Human Resource Management Subject Area Grouping that is geared to improvement in curriculum and instruction. She is also listed as an Instructor at Walden Distance University, USA.
She has been a management training and development consultant in the public, private and voluntary sectors and her major focus has been on capacity building in the areas of: Management Development, Organizational Development/Management of Change, Human Resource Management, Gender and Development, and Youth Development. She has conducted consultancies in these areas throughout the Caribbean; the United Kingdom; Eastern and Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Uganda); West Africa (the Gambia and Nigeria), India, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Middle East, Malta and the Maldives.
Apart from delivering training programmes, she has been a member of several project consulting teams for regional and international organizations, including: the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM), UNDP, UNESCO, CARICAD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the World Bank, and the British Council (DFID).
For the period 2006-2009, Dr. Williams had been appointed as the sole Caribbean representative to the United Nations 24-member Council of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), a sub-committee of the UN’s Economic and Social Council. Her key involvement in the work of the Committee is as a member of the Review Team for the UN Public Service Awards Programme based on submissions of innovative public administration projects from UN member countries worldwide. In April 2009, her membership in CEPA was extended for a second term, 2010 – 2013.