Indianna Minto-Coy

Dr Indianna Minto-Coy was appointed to the Board of GraceKennedy Limited on 26th June 2018.

Dr Minto-Coy is Senior Research Fellow at the Mona School of Business and Management (MSBM) at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus. She is also a Research Affiliate at the International Migration Research Centre, Wilfred Laurier University in Canada; Member, Academy of Entrepreneurship; Member of the Diaspora Networks in International Business-Research Group; and Chairs the MSBM Research Committee.

As a world renown academic, her research, consultancies, and publications cover the themes of Diasporas and Migration, Entrepreneurship, International Business, Small Business and Disaster Risk Reduction, Business Continuity Management, ICTs and Public Policy. She has been a consultant for the Government of Jamaica, having compiled the first draft of the Jamaica Diaspora Policy. Dr Minto-Coy has also won a number of awards for her work, including the Principal’s Award for the Most Outstanding Researcher in the Faculty of Social Sciences (2018 and 2020).

She has held appointments at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School (University of Oxford), the University of Waterloo and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, where she also coordinated the research component of the Caribbean Economic Governance Project. She has also worked at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for Trade Policy, Law and Services, UWI, Cave Hill Campus.

Dr Minto-Coy serves as a Board member of the Diaspora Engagement Centre in Guyana and also as a member of the judging committee for the Ministry of Finance and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s Public Sector Corporate Governance Awards, contributing to the increased governance and management of public sector boards in Jamaica. Additionally, she serves as Co-Director at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Thinking and Practice at the UWI. She has served as a member of the Jamaica Stock Exchange Best Practices Awards Committee, where she chaired the Member Dealer and Investor Relations Sub-Committees and served as a member of the Corporate Governance Sub-Committee. She also served as a member of the Listing Committee of the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange.

Dr Minto-Coy earned her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from the UWI and her Doctorate from the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.