Dr. Kai-Ann D. Skeete is the Trade Research Fellow at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services based at the UWI Cave Hill Campus. Her substantial training is in the field of International Relations, Trade and Political Science. Kai-Ann is a Caribbean regionalist at heart and is a proud graduate of the Institute of International Relations (IIR) UWI St. Augustine Campus. Kai-Ann’s doctoral thesis dealt with the Caribbean’s approach to regional integration and advances recommendations on the governance of the labour regime.

As a university lecturer and research fellow, Dr. Skeete is responsible for delivering the Trade Aspects of Regional Integration (TARI), Caribbean Integration and CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) courses in the MSc International Trade Policy and Integration Studies programmes. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Mona Campus.

Kai-Ann is an active member of St. Peter’s Parish Church and has been the Parochial Church Council Secretary since 2012. She is also the proud mother of 5 year old Joshua who she loves to show him the region with the hope that he too will be proud to be a product of the Caribbean.