Dr. Armstrong Alexis
CARICOM Secretariat
Deputy Secretary-General
Armstrong Alexis is Saint Lucian. He is a graduate of Walden University in the United States and holds a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration. Dr. Alexis also holds an MBA from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom and is a graduate of the University of the West Indies Mona Campus, Jamaica with a Master of Science Degree in Sociology and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Work. Dr. Alexis has held numerous leadership positions both as a volunteer and professionally. He joined the Caribbean Community Secretariat as Deputy Secretary-General from 1 November 2021. He joined the Secretariat after having served as the Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Namibia Country Office. Prior to his assignment in Namibia, Dr. Alexis served as Deputy Resident Representative and Functional Head of Office for the UNDP in Suriname. He has also served as the Coordinator for Programme and Operations at the UNDP Pacific Centre in Fiji, as well as the Functional Deputy to the Resident Representative of the Multi-Country Office for Samoa, Niue, Cook Islands, and Tokelau, and as Operations Manager with the UNDP Sub-regional Office in Barbados. Armstrong has undertaken numerous special mission assignments with UNDP, most notably as Deputy Country Director for Operations, ad-interim in Haiti in 2010, Human Resources and Training Coordinator at UNDP Headquarters in New York in 2013, and Special Operations Advisor in Maiduguri, Nigeria in 2019. Before joining the United Nations in 2007, Dr. Alexis served as Regional Director for the Commonwealth Youth Programme in the Caribbean, bearing responsibility for supporting government initiatives on youth development throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean. He has commendable experience in the public sector having served at senior levels with the Government of Saint Lucia, and in academia with the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. In 1994, whilst reading for his Bachelor of Science degree at the Mona Campus of the UWI, Dr. Alexis was elected to the post of President of the UWI Guild of Undergraduates and served with distinction for one year. In his current post, Dr. Alexis oversees the Corporate Services and Functional Management of the Secretariat and acts under delegated responsibility from the CARICOM Secretary-General in all aspects of the functions of the Secretariat.