Alicia Nicholls Is a Junior Research Fellow of The Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services of The University of the West Indies.
Alicia, B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. (Dist), LL.B. (Hons) is a multilingual, multidisciplined and legally-trained international trade specialist whose research interests include foreign investment law and policy, financing for sustainable development, investment migration programmes, as well as global financial regulatory issues. She is presently a trade researcher and part-time lecturer at The University of the West Indies.
Alicia is a frequent presenter on contemporary trade matters at academic and industry conferences and events and since 2011, is the founder of one of the Caribbean’s leading blogs on trade matters. She also contributes articles to a variety of international and regional publications including IFC Review, AfronomicsLaw Blog, the Barbados Business Authority, among others.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science (First Class Honours), a Master of Science in International Trade Policy (with distinction) and a Bachelor of Laws (Upper Second Class Honours) from The University of the West Indies. She also holds the FITT Diploma in International Trade from the prestigious Ottawa-based Forum for International Trade Training (FITT).
She is an Advisory Board member of the Caribbean-ASEAN Council, a member of the Network of Experts of the Caribbean Chamber of Commerce in Europe (CCCE), a member of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the International Studies Association (ISA)
Kathy Nicolaou-Manias is the Regional Technical Advisor on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), with more than 11 years of experience on tax and commercial IFFs through trade.
She has co-authored UNECA’s 44 country study for Africa to measure trade misinvoicing and Trade-based Money Laundering using different methods. In 2011, she headed the research policy department at South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre, where she provided advice to the Minister and Deputy Minister of Finance on IFFs and the illicit economy.
Ms. Nicolaou-Manias chaired the inter-departmental working group on IFFs and the Working Group on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies. She wrote the background statement and non-paper for the South African government to include tax and commercial IFFs into the G20’s Development Working Group agenda. She represented South Africa at the OECD’s Charting Illicit Trade Task Force, from 2012 to 2016.
Ms. Nicolaou-Manias has a Masters in Economics.
Norbert is Senior Standards Manager at Leather Working Group where policy ideas meet factory floors. He convenes brands, leather manufacturers and industry experts to test solutions, then frames them in clear and auditable standards that can scale.
Polish by birth, with family roots in the leather industry, his role is to turn circularity concepts (like waste valorisation) into everyday practice that's followed from Monday morning around the world.
Peter Nielsen is an Impact Investment Manager with the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), where he manages a portfolio of agriculture and land use investments across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In his work, he focuses on developing investment cases with dual social and environmental benefits for smallholder farmers in developing countries. As part of this, he oversees the CFC’s strategic work on regenerative agriculture, climate and biodiversity, and outcomes-based financing.
Hara Nikolopoulou is a lawyer and Vice President of the Hellenic Competition Commission.
She has handled numerous cartel, abuse of dominance and merger cases in a wide range of industries. She has served the HCC since 2011 in various positions of trust, having served as Director, Head of Units in the Legal Services Directorate and responsible for the International Relations of the HCC.
Prior to joining the HCC Hara worked as a competition lawyer at the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission, in the competition practice group of law firms in Athens and Brussels and as a trainee at the European Commission.
Hara graduated from the School of Law of the University of Athens in 2000 and was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2002. She holds an LL.M in Corporate and Commercial Law from University College London and a Master of Science in Economics (Economic Regulation and Competition) from the Department of Economics of City University in London.
Anne is currently Senior Standards Manager at LWG. She has over 10 years’ experience working with voluntary sustainability standards and schemes in various fields such as fisheries, sugarcane and jewellery. Her role at Leather Working Group involves developing Chain of Custody requirements for their sustainability system for the leather manufacturing industry.
An expert in standards and assurance, Anne has developed, supported and/or assessed against the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), Bonsucro, and Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) schemes. Prior to joining Leather Working Group she worked at TDi Sustainability and Assurance Services International, an accreditation and assurance provider for several voluntary sustainability schemes.
Dr. Satya V. Nitta is currently the co-founder and CEO of Merlyn Mind, a venture backed AI company focused on developing voice based digital assistants for education.
He is a technologist and a business leader and has deep experience in launching major new initiatives that create significant technical and business impact in both the hardware and software areas of computing. He was the former global head of the AI solutions for learning department at IBM Research which he created from the ground up. In the AI space, teams he has led and is currently leading have invented and developed technologies at the intersection of conversational systems, speech recognition and natural language understanding as well as AI hardware-based edge devices.
Dr. Angelique V. Nixon is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
She is a Bahamas-born and raised, Trinidad-based writer, artist, scholar and activist. Also, Angelique is the director of the feminist LGBTI civil society organisation CAISO: Sex & Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago.
Her research and creative work are widely available; she is author of the poetry and art chapbook titled Saltwater Healing and the award-winning scholarly book titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture. For two decades, Angelique has worked in social justice movements and civil society and community organisations regionally and internationally.
She is fiercely committed to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, and Black liberation.
Ahmed Niyaz is the Head of Strategic Management and International Relations Division of the Maldives Customs Service. He joined the Maldives Customs Service (MCS) in June 2007.
Over the last 17 years, he has contributed to various areas such as document processing, Customs valuation, strategic management, international relations, as well as tariff and trade.
He was among participants of the first batch of WCO Scholarship Program titled “Masters in Strategic Management and Intellectual Property Rights” held at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan in the year 2011-2012.
He is also a World Customs Organization (WCO) accredited Mercator Program Advisor (MPA) on the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and has undertaken numerous diagnostic missions in countries such as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Bangladesh. Most recently in September 2023, he undertook a follow-up mission, to the National Board of Revenue (NBR) of Bangladesh.