Karen-Mae Hill
Karen-Mae Hill, OBE is the High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda to the United Kingdom and member of the Commonwealth's Board of Governors.[1][2][3][4] Hill is also the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Antigua and Barbuda to the Republic of Estonia.[1] She won a scholarships to study French and law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom before becoming the first Antiguan to win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.[2] Hill is a qualified Barrister in English law. She is the founder of the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra,[3] co-founder and music director at the Potters Youth Group and an advocate for green technology.[1]
Education
Hill received a Bachelor of Law with French Law and Language (LLB) degree from the University of Leicester, UK. She received a MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, England.[1]
Career
After receiving her degrees, Hill served as a lawyer in England, Wales, and the Eastern Caribbean.[2] She also worked in banking in Antigua.[2]
Hill was appointed High Commissioner in November 2015.[1] As High Commissioner, she signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters in 2018, making Antigua and Barbuda the 125th jurisdiction to do so.[5] In 2021, she signed the Joint Communiqué that established of diplomatic relations between the Kyrgyz Republic and Antigua and Barbuda.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e "High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda to the Court of St. James's". Antigua and Barbuda High Commission. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Her Excellency Ms Karen-Mae Hill". Diplomat Magazine. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ a b Mark. "Webinar: High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda HE Karen-Mae Hill". Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
- ^ "influencing-policy-in-antigua-barbuda | Public Policy|Southampton | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
- ^ "Antigua and Barbuda becomes the 125th jurisdiction to join the most powerful multilateral instrument against offshore tax evasion and avoidance - OCDE". www.oecd.org. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ^ "Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". mfa.gov.kg. Retrieved 2022-04-01.