KEVIN HOPE

Kevin is a pre-eminent thinker, with a passion for economic development and public policy. He has an ability to turn economic concepts into practical investible ideas. Hope Economics was birth in early 2017 after a series of lectures and virtual engagements with young economists and policy analysts on the practical tools of finance, economics and the application of statistics in life and business operations.

He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Trade Policy, Quantitative Methods and Transformational Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is also an International Labour Organization (ILO) certified trainer in Entrepreneurship - Know about Business (KAB) and Start and Improve Your Business (SYIB) programmes. Kevin has provided training and technical assistance to several micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and organizations within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Kevin has over fifteen years of policy and project-oriented experience working with Caribbean institutions on issues of Economic Development, Public Finance, Foreign Trade and Investment, Banking and Finance, and Debt Management.

Development Specialist and Economist by profession, he is an Economics PhD candidate with Bournemouth University, UK; and holds a M.Sc. Financial and Business Economics, and B.Sc. Economics, from the University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Executive Education in Economic Development and Macroeconomic Policymaking with Harvard and Columbia University respectively.