Dr Vaalmikki Arjoon
Dr Vaalmikki Arjoon is a lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI), where he currently lectures in Finance, Economics and Econometrics at the Department of Management Studies. Prior to joining UWI, he lectured in Financial and Macro- Economics at the University of Nottingham in the UK and at their campus in Ningbo, China. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Nottingham and professional credentials in Financial Technology from the University of Oxford.
Dr Arjoon also collaborates on several research projects with regional central banks, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. He is also a regular commentator in the local and regional media on economic and financial matters.
Dr Arjoon currently serves on the council of the Institute of Banking and Finance of Trinidad and Tobago, where he plays a key role in promoting professional education in the local Banking and Finance sector. He is also a member of several professional international Economics associations, including the Royal Economic Society, the Leverhulme Institute for Globalisation and Economic Policy, and the Western Economics Association. In the past six years, he has also worked closely with several chambers of commerce throughout the Caribbean region and currently serves as the Vice President of the board of directors of the Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
He is also a board member of Maritime Capital, a leading investment management firm in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr Arjoon also travels regularly to present his research on emerging financial markets at many Economic and Financial conferences, both academic and professional. In addition, he supervises MSc and PhD theses at UWI, and has also published several of his research studies in the field of Financial Economics in a number of leading international peer reviewed academic journals.
