The Honorable Christopher Peter Sinckler, MP
Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs
Barbados
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Bio
The Honourable Christopher Peter Sinckler has held the
post of Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs since the
4th October, 2010. Prior to this, Minister Sinckler also held
the portfolios of the Ministry of Social Care, Constituency
Empowerment, Urban and Rural Development as well as
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Prior to
his ministerial appointment, Mr. Sinckler worked in the
public, private, and civil society sectors in the Caribbean,
on policy issues relating to macro-economic reform, trade
liberalisation, poverty reduction and social development. He
has worked covering institutions such as the World Bank,
International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development
Bank, World Trade Organisation, African Caribbean and
Pacific Group of States and the European Union among
others. In this regard, he has been a strong advocate for
developing processes that engender the region’s external
trade competitiveness in a sustainable manner and has been a
leader in regional and global civil society for the past 10 years.
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Personal/Professional
The Honourable Christopher Peter Sinckler was born in
Barbados on October 1st, 1967. In 1990, he graduated from
the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus with a
Bachelor of Arts, Uppers Second Class Honours and in 2005
was awarded a Master’s of Science degree in International
Trade Policy. From 1999 until his appointment as Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Mr. Sinckler served as the
Executive Coordinator of the Caribbean Policy Development
Centre (CDPC) – a coalition of Caribbean, non-governmental
organisations that has lobbied regional and international
governments on behalf of the sections of the Caribbean
populations on international trade and development issues
and their implications for the region. Prior to assuming this
position, he was the CDPC’s Senior Programme OfficerStructural Adjustment and Economic Liberalisation from
1994 to 1998.
Caribbean Investment iQ December 2013
Between 1987 and 1989, he was a Research Assistant at
the Learning Centre and served as the Personal Aide to the
former Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Barbados,
Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, during the period 1990 to
1994. He was a tutor at the University of the West Indies
in Government and Political Science from 1990 to 1994
and from 2000 to 2003, he held the position of Director,
Global Secretariat, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)