Jennifer Boucaud-Blake

Mrs. Jennifer Boucaud-Blake is a retired career public officer whose service spanned administrative, technical, managerial and leadership positions, culminating in that of Permanent Secretary which she held for the last nine years of her career.

Having mastered the fundamentals of public service operations in her early career, augmented by university training and qualifications, she launched into management consultancy with a focus on transformation activities across the public service. Her specialization further expanded when she was promoted to the position of Senior Human Resource Officer in the Ministry of National Security and steadily elevated to portfolios of Director Human Resources, Deputy Permanent Secretary and Permanent Secretary. In this last position she provided strategic and administrative leadership in one of the largest and most complex ministries in Trinidad and Tobago, encompassing military, quasi-military and civilian operations.

Academic training for Mrs. Boucaud-Blake can be described as well-rounded and continuous. Her professional development, inclusive of exposure to training in both local and international settings, provided her with cutting-edge skills that were successfully applied in support of transformative initiatives to improve service delivery in the public service.

At the culmination of her career in 2014, she was honored with a National Award – Public Service Medal of Merit (gold). In subsequent months, she became involved in providing consultancy service that include the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) and continues to contribute to the transformation of the Trinidad and Tobago Public Service. She was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the College of Science Technology & Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT) in June 2016.