GLORIA BARRETT-SOBERS
Chairman
Gloria Barrett-Sobers is currently the Chairman of the Board of the St. Andrew High School Foundation.
She is a senior administrator and a human resource management specialist with extensive experience as a consultant and manager in promoting and delivering organizational change and in developing and facilitating interventions to achieve organization-wide cultural transformation.
As the first female Registrar at the University of the West Indies and Director of Administration, and as part of its senior management team from 1992 to September 2007, she shared responsibility for the strategic planning and administrative policies of the regional University, with its three campuses and centres in 15 different countries. Her completion of MIT’s Sloan School of Management’s executive program in Leading Change in Complex Organizations also served her well in navigating the changes at the university.
She holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Miami, a Masters Degree in Education from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from UCWI – London University. Gloria is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Theological College of the West Indies and the Jamaica Methodist District Company. She was a member of the University Hospital of the West Indies Board of Management and the Hospital’s Trust Fund.
In 1988, she served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Productivity Task Force and as a member of the Prime Minister's Committee established in 1995 to Examine and Make Recommendations to Improve Accountability and Efficiency for Public Sector Entities.
In 2005, she was honoured as a Trailblazer by her alma mater, St. Andrew High School, and is pleased to be actively involved with the school in her role as Chairman of the Foundation since 2008.