Английская Википедия:Ernest Hilaire

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Ernest Hilaire is a Saint Lucian politician who is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information.[1] Hilaire also serves as the 1st Deputy Political Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party.[2] Hilaire serves in the House of Assembly as the representative for Castries South. Hilaire is the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom for Saint Lucia.[3] He served in opposition from 2016[4] till the landslide victory of the Saint Lucia Labour Party in the 2021 general election.[5]

Education

In the 1990s Hilaire obtained a Bachelor of Science degree[6] at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies.[3] Hilaire made the decision to move from a strictly Sociology major to a double major in Political Science and Sociology.[6] Hilaire served one year as a Foreign Service Cadet and went on to achieve his Master of Philosophy Degree in 1995 with a distinction in International Relations from Darwin College, Cambridge University, England. Hilaire also obtained a PhD from London School of Economics in 2006 with a thesis titled International relations and the shaping of state-societal relations - A postcolonial study.[7][8]

Post career

Hilaire served as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1999.[9] Hilaire became the Chief Executive Officer of The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on 1 October 2009.[7] He would later leave the post to obtain a diplomatic posting in London in September 2012.[10]

Hilaire was appointed Deputy Prime Minister on 7 January 2022.[11]

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