Gale Tracy Christiane Rigobert is a Saint Lucian politician, former Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development. [1] [2] She is the former representative for Micoud North constituency in the House of Assembly. [1] [3]
She served as deputy political leader of the United Workers Party. [4] She won her seat in the 2011 general election. [5] Rigobert was a member of the Saint Lucian Senate. [6] She is a former lecturer at the University of the West Indies. [7] On 1 February 2014, she became Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition for the United Workers Party. [8] In June 2016, she was appointed Minister of Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development. [9]
When Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations, and Sustainable Development, she assumed her seat as the Co-Chair of the Governing Board of the Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP). [10] The REAP brings together a range of stakeholders across the climate, humanitarian, and development communities with the aim of making 1 billion people safer from disaster by 2025.
Rigobert is the author of the book – “Bridging the Digital Divide? Prospects for Caribbean Development in the New Techno-economic Paradigm”. [11]
In October 2023, she assumed the role of Academic Dean at the University of St. Martin. [12]
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