Francine Baron | |
---|---|
Minister of Foreign Affairs and CARICOM Affairs | |
In office 13 December 2014 –25 December 2019 | |
Prime Minister | Roosevelt Skerrit |
Preceded by | Roosevelt Skerrit |
Succeeded by | Kenneth Darroux |
Personal details | |
Political party | Dominica Labour Party |
Parent | Frank Baron |
Alma mater | Holborn School of Law |
Francine Baron is a Dominican politician,attorney,and the Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs from 2014 to 2019. [1] [2] She previously served as Attorney General of Dominica from 2007 to 15 October 2010 (becoming the first woman in the position) [3] [4] and High Commissioner for Dominica to the UK from 31 August 2012 to December 2014. [5] [6] She is the child of Dominica's first Chief Minister Frank Baron who served as Chief Minister from 1960 to 1961. Her grandfather,A. A. Baron served on the Legislative Council from 1925 into the 1930s. [7]
In her youth,Baron studied at BPP University. [8]
Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
The Commonwealth secretary-general,formally the secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations,is the head of the Commonwealth Secretariat,the central body which has served the Commonwealth of Nations since its establishment in 1965,and responsible for representing the Commonwealth publicly. The Commonwealth secretary-general should not be confused with the head of the Commonwealth.
Tupou VI is King of Tonga.
Patricia Janet Scotland,Baroness Scotland of Asthal,,is a Dominican-British barrister and politician,serving as the sixth secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations. She was elected at the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and took office on 1 April 2016. She is the first woman to hold the post.
Catherine Margaret Ashton,Baroness Ashton of Upholland,is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.
Sushma Swaraj was an Indian lawyer,politician and diplomat who served as the Minister of External Affairs of India in the first Narendra Modi government from 2014 to 2019. She was the second person to complete a 5-year term as the Minister of External Affairs,after Jawaharlal Nehru. A senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),Swaraj was the second woman to hold the office of Minister of External Affairs,after Indira Gandhi. She was elected seven times as a Member of Parliament and three times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the age of 25 in 1977,she became the youngest cabinet minister of the Indian state of Haryana. She also served as Chief Minister of Delhi for a short duration in 1998 and became the first female Chief Minister of Delhi.
Christina Alexandra Freeland is a Canadian politician and journalist who has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for University—Rosedale since 2015. She previously served as the tenth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Liberal Party,she was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election in 2013. First appointed to the Cabinet following the 2015 federal election,she has served in various posts including as the minister of finance from 2020 until her resignation from the 29th Canadian Ministry in 2024.
The Cabinet of Dominica is appointed by the President of Dominica acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister of Dominica.
Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu is a Tongan civil servant,diplomat and former Cabinet Minister. From 2005 to 2009 she was Tonga's permanent ambassador to the United Nations,and from 2017 to 2021 she was United Nations High Representative for the Least Developed Countries,Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. From 2021 to 2024 she was minister of foreign affairs.
Diezani K. Agama is a Nigerian politician who was the first female President of OPEC.
The Dickson Poon School of Law is the law school of King's College London,itself part of the federal University of London,and serves as one of the nine schools of study within the college. It is situated on the Strand in the East Wing of Somerset House,in close proximity to the Royal Courts of Justice and the four Inns of Court in the heart of London's legal quarter. Among the most prestigious and selective law schools in the world,it is currently ranked in the global top 15 and fifth in both Europe and the UK.
Maura Tracy Healey is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 2015 to 2023 and was elected governor in 2022,defeating the Republican nominee,former state representative Geoff Diehl.
This is a list of foreign ministers of Dominica.
Jody Wilson-Raybould,also known by her initials JWR and by her Kwak’wala name Puglaas,is a Canadian lawyer,author,and former politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver Granville from 2015 to 2021. She was initially elected as a member of the Liberal Party –serving as justice minister and attorney general from 2015 to 2019,and briefly as veterans affairs minister and associate national defence minister in 2019 –until she resigned in response to statements from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the SNC-Lavalin affair. After she was expelled from the Liberal caucus,she continued to sit in Parliament as an independent and was reelected in 2019,but did not run in 2021. Before entering federal politics,she was a BC provincial Crown attorney,a treaty commissioner and regional chief of the BC Assembly of First Nations.
The Honourable or The Honorable is an honorific style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people,usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions.
Franklin Andrew Merrifield Baron was the first Chief Minister of Dominica.
The Ministry of Justice,Immigration and National Security of Dominica provides legal advice and representation to the federal government and its departments,as well as administers justice,protects intellectual property rights,and ensures that financial crimes are properly analyzed and investigated. The divisions of the ministry include the following:
The nations of Dominica and Mexico established diplomatic relations in 1979. Both nations are members of the Association of Caribbean States,Community of Latin American and Caribbean States,Organization of American States and the United Nations.