Ernest Hilaire | |
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11th Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Lucia | |
Assumed office 7 January 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Philip J. Pierre |
Preceded by | Philip J. Pierre (2016) |
Minister for Tourism,Investment,Creative Industries,Culture and Information | |
Assumed office 5 August 2021 [1] | |
Prime Minister | Philip J. Pierre |
1st Deputy Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party [2] | |
Assumed office 28 September 2019 | |
Leader | Philip J. Pierre |
Preceded by | Position established |
Member of the Parliament | |
Assumed office 6 June 2016 | |
Preceded by | Robert Kennedy Lewis |
Constituency | Castries South |
Personal details | |
Political party | Saint Lucia Labour Party |
Education | University of the West Indies at Cave Hill,Darwin College,Cambridge,London School of Economics and Political Science |
Website | https://ernesthilaire.com [3] |
Ernest Hilaire is a Saint Lucian politician who is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism,Investment,Creative Industries,Culture and Information. [4] Hilaire also serves as the 1st Deputy Political Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party. [5] 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. [6] He served in opposition from 2016 [7] till the landslide victory of the Saint Lucia Labour Party in the 2021 general election. [8]
In the 1990s Hilaire obtained a Bachelor of Science degree [9] at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies. [6] Hilaire made the decision to move from a strictly Sociology major to a double major in Political Science and Sociology. [9] 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. [10] [11]
Hilaire served as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Youth and Sports in 1999. [12] Hilaire became the Chief Executive Officer of The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) on 1 October 2009. [10] He would later leave the post to obtain a diplomatic posting in London in September 2012. [13]
Hilaire was appointed Deputy Prime Minister on 7 January 2022. [14]