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The Honourable Charles Washington Misick
Minister of Finance, Investment and Trade, Turks and Caicos
Islands
Her Excellency Paola Amadei
Ambassador of the European Union (EU) for Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Overseas
Countries and Territories (OCTs) of Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands
The Honourable Charles Washington Misick is a former Chief Minister of the TCI serving from
April 1991 to January 1995. He has dedicated years of service to the development of the Turks
and Caicos Islands and its people. Throughout his extensive political career he has displayed a
natural ability to energize and inspire individuals to work towards nation building, and community
improvement. As a challenge-driven savvy businessman Mr. Misick has demonstrated creativity,
enthusiasm and vision in areas such as real estate development, and finance.
Minister Misick is a graduate in Business Administration and Accounting, and has attended leader-
ship courses in development, and conflict resolution at the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University. His employment history includes senior audit position with
PriceWaterhouse-Coopers, Chairman and CEO of the Prestigious Group- Real Estate Sales and
Development. In the past held the portfolio of Tourism and Finance.
Minister Misick’s work in government has earned him the title of Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire (OBE). Mr. Misick has attended and presented at many conferences in the Caribbean,
Canada, the United States, and Asia on topics ranging from Financial Services, to Investment
Opportunities, and Tourism.
Paola Amadei has been the head of the EU Delegation in Jamaica and to Belize, the Bahamas,
Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands since January 2012. Previously she was the head of
the EU Delegation in Asmara, Eritrea. Ms. Amadei has been working for over 20 years in European
institutions and before Kingston and Asmara, she was posted in Brussels, Bogota, and New York
(Delegation at the UN). She is also an economist of the University of Genoa and holds a diploma in
European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges as well as an M.A. in law and diplomacy of
the Fletcher School, USA.
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