Above: Sir Hilary Beckles
By the Caribbean Journal staff
The University of the West Indies has a new vice chancellor.
The Caribbean’s regional university has officially appointed Professor Sir Hilary Beckles to the role, effective May 1.
Sir HIlary’s is a longtime university administrator, economic historian and higher education specialist.
He is the principal author of The Brain Train: Tertiary Education Thinking and Planning in the Caribbean; vice president of the International Task Force for the UNESCO Slave Route Project; a consultant for the UNESCO Cities for Peace Global Programme; an advisor to the UN World Culture Report; and member of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon’s, Science Advisory Board on sustainable development, among other positions.
The University of the West Indies now has more than 40,000 students across the Caribbean region.