KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries

U.S. Congressman

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 

Dr. Julius Garvey

Head, Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 

Stacey Plaskett

U.S. Congresswoman

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 

Dr. Didacus Jules

Director General

Organization of Eastern Caribbean States – OECS

FOUNDER & PROGRAM DIRECTOR:

John L. Woods Jr.

 Co-Director, Howard University School of Law ADR Program

Managing Partner, Woods Global Dispute Resolution 

Teresa Vasquez Del Pino

UNHCR Protection Officer

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Dominican Republic)  

Ivonne Garza 

 Senior Associate

 O’Neil Institute, Georgetown University (U.S.)

Ricardo Esquivia

Founder, Director, Legal Representative

Sembrandopaz(Colombia)

Yannick Gill (former Fellow)

Legislative Counsel

Human Rights Lawyer

U.S. House of Representatives

David Louis Rosenblatt

Regional Principal Economic Adviser,  Caribbean Country Department (CCB)

Inter-American Development Bank (U.S.)

Dr. Joy Kategekwa

Strategy Advisor on Africa

United Nations Development Programme (Uganda)

Jay Singh, PhD

Country Representative/Director

USAID (Jamaica)

Robert Lennard LeHunte

Executive Director

Inter-American Development Bank

Trinidad and Tobago

Alexandra Whitaker

Trade Staff Director/Chief Trade Counsel

U.S. House of Representatives (U.S.)

Jan Yves Remy 

Director of the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law (UWI)

Trade Law and Policy Expert 

(Barbados/St. Lucia) 

Kholofelo Kugler

International Trade Lawyer

The Advisory Centre on WTO Law (South Africa)

Vincent J. Atkins

LDC Trade Policy/Technical Advisor

CARICOM Secretariat

(Barbados/St. Lucia)

Darren P.  Riley

Partner/International Trade Lawyer

Riley Trade Law (U.S.)

Nicole Elam

CEO

National Bankers Association (U.S.)

Nichole Francis Reynolds

VP & Global Head of Government Relations

Servicenow (U.S.)

Brian P. Woolfolk

Principal

Swan Creek Strategies(U.S.)

Angelique Strong-Marks

Chief Legal Officer

Cars.com (U.S.)

Raymond Gilpin, Ph.D.

Chief Economist

United Nations Development Programme (African Region)

 

 

 

Lakeshia Ford

President & CEO

Ford Communicatons (Ghana)

Stephanie Adu–Mudikongo

CEO

Colorbox Cosmetics (Ghana)

 Renita Gatesida

Program Coordinator

Startup Bluebook Program

Certa Foundation (Rwanda)

Felicia J. Persaud

CEO

Invest Caribbean

(U.S./Caribbean)

Allen Waxman

President & CEO

CPR-International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution  (U.S.)

Shan Greer

President & CEO

BVI International Arbitration Centre  (St. Lucia)

Jeanne Charles 

 Arbitrator & Mediator (U.S.) 

Arthur Matthews

Mediator & Professor

Penn State University (U.S.) 

Scott Vesel

Partner

Three Crowns LLP (U.S.)

Dr. Nechi Sylvia Ezeako

CEO

EL-Values Advisory

Mirasire Energy Ltd. (Rwanda)

 Kwaku Agyeman-Budu

Dean

African Centre on Law & Ethics

Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration Law School (Ghana) 

Kandis Gibson

President

Women’s Bar Association (U.S.)

Dr. Antonius R. Hippolyte

Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies and Research)

Faculty of Law at The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus

(Barbados/St. Lucia)