Maxine McClean | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office January 2008 –May 2018 [1] | |
| Prime Minister | David Thompson Freundel Stuart |
| Preceded by | Christopher Sinckler |
| Succeeded by | Jerome Walcott |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Barbadian |
| Political party | Democratic Labour Party |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies Ohio University Louisiana State University |
Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean is a Barbadian politician who served as her country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2018. [2]
McClean is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. While she was there she received second class honors in Public Administration. McClean was also a lecturer in the Department of Management Studies. In 1999,she established her own consulting firm. [3]
A few years later,in January 2008,Maxine was invited to join the Barbados Cabinet as a minister in the Prime Minister's office. Eleven months after this,she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. McClean opened a new embassy in Brazil and appointed Yvette Goddard as the first ambassador of Barbados to Brazil in 2009. [4] In the same year she addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations. [2] In 2010 McClean opened Barbados' mission to Beijing,China,where Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford served as the first resident Ambassador to that country. [5]
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