Dion M. Abdool
LL.B LEC LL.M
FCIS GMP
Chair

Mr Abdool is an Attorney at Law with over 20 years’ experience in the corporate environment and holds a Masters Degree in law (Corporate & Commercial). He is a Chartered Secretary, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretary and Administrators (ICSA). He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (GMP).

Mr. Abdool has acquired extensive experience in areas of commercial, contract, company law, corporate governance. He has facilitated workshops, presentations and presented papers locally, regionally and internationally on areas such as governance, risk management, integrity in public life, procurement systems. He has lectured in the LL.B Degree programme.

Mr. Abdool has functioned at senior executive levels. He is the General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at the Water and Sewerage Authority.

Mr. Abdool is Chair of the local Chapter of Transparency International and coordinates the specialist Legal Aid Clinic for the Hugh Wooding Law School at the Chapter. He also serves as a Director on the Advisory Board for the Executive Masters Programme in Business Administration at the Arthur Lok Jack Institute of Business, a Chief Examiner for ICSA, Canada, a member of the Board of the NGO Music Literacy Trust and the Advisory Board of UWI’s Faculty of Social Sciences.

Holder of a Master’s Degree from New York University and Bachelor’s Degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Martin returned to Trinidad & Tobago in 1985 and joined the Public Service as a Statistician and then moved on to spend several years in Administration in the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance.He retired in May 2016 after serving for ten years as Registrar, Integrity Commission. He had previously been afforded the opportunity to act as Registrar over the years and, as a result, has served with all the Integrity Commissions which have been appointed since 1988.

Persuaded that as a young nation, missteps and misfires need to be addressed by committed citizens in a timely manner, he has associated himself with groups which have been devoted to making Trinidad & Tobago a better place such as Citizens for Conservation and Patrons of Queen’s Hall.

Susan N.  Gordon is a retired Foreign Service Officer with thirty-five years of experience at the bilateral, regional, hemispheric and multilateral levels. She has served at our diplomatic missions in New Delhi, to the United Nations in New York and to the European Communities in Brussels. In Brussels Susan was closely involved in negotiation of the ACP-EU Cotonou and Economic Partnership Agreements. More recently she participated in CARICOM and hemispheric integration initiatives in her capacity as Director of the CARICOM and Caribbean Affairs Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the course of her career she also headed the other key Ministry Divisions of Multilateral Relations, Administration and International Economic Relations.

Susan is a graduate of Carleton University (BA Hons.1973) and of the Institute of International Relations (1978).  She is a Certified and practicing Mediator in Civil and in Family Matters.

Jason Stedman is a Company Director and Creative Director at The Buzz Ltd, a successful local advertising agency. He specializes in strategy and concept development and has worked on many award-winning advertising campaigns for clients in various industries.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Leicester and a BSc Computer Science from the University of the West Indies.

For approximately the last year and a half, Jason has been an active member of the Communications Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute.

Ariane is the Research Coordinator at The Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago where she manages the corporate social responsibility and corporate governance initiatives.  She initially joined the Chamber as the project coordinator for its “Improving Corporate Governance in T&T” project in collaboration with the IABD.

Ariane holds a Masters of Business Administration with a specialisation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business and a Post Graduate Diploma in International Relations from the University of the West Indies.  She has over 10 years of work experience in organisational development, administration, strategic planning, project management, human resources, communications and marketing.

Ariane also represents the Energy Chamber as a member of the Multi Stakeholder Group (MSG) Steering Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Extractive Industries Initiative (TTEITI).

Reynold Cooper is a Chartered Accountant by profession, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom (FCCA), and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Trinidad and Tobago (CA). Mr. Cooper also holds a post graduate Diploma in Public Administration from the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago, and a Masters in Business Administration (Public Sector Management) from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He also holds a Certificate awarded by the European Union and CARIFORUM for participating in the Advanced Course in Public Procurement.

In December 2002, Mr. Cooper was appointed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and was promoted as the Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister and Head of the Public Service in January 2011. Mr. Cooper retired from the public service in May 2015 and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the School of Accounting and Management (SAMTT). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of RHAND Credit Union Co-Operative Society Ltd, Trinidad and Tobago Association of Responsible Persons (TTARP) and Vision on Mission. On August 31st 2015, Mr. Cooper was awarded the Chaconia Medal (Gold) for his contribution to the public service at the Independence Day National Awards Ceremony.

Donna Jack is an accounting professional with 23 years accounting experience. She holds the ACCA qualification and US CPA Designation. She also holds an Executive MBA from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, UWI. She currently manages her own Consultancy Firm titled “ProAdvisor Business Services.”

She has worked across various sectors including Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Security, Audit and Accounting. She is committed to integrity and transparency in the conduct of public and private affairs.

Ms. Narcis is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill and St. Augustine campuses. An Attorney -at-law by profession, Ms. Narcis was admitted to the Bar in 2004.

Her wide and varied experience includes positions as Legal Counsel/Corporate Secretary at several State Enterprises and Legal Officer at one of Trinidad and Tobago’s Government Ministries.
Ms. Narcis has also lectured extensively in the field of law at the Cipriani College of Labour and Cooperative Studies.  Ms. Narcis joined the Elections and Boundaries Commission of Trinidad and Tobago as its Senior Legal Officer and Secretary to the Board of Commissioners in April, 2010.

She possesses a comprehensive knowledge of the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago, Public Corporate Governance, Public/ Administrative Law; and Governmental procedures and practices.

She is married and has one daughter.