Karen-Mae Hill (right) with Kitack Lim at the IMO

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda to the Court of St. James's". Antigua and Barbuda High Commission. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Her Excellency Ms Karen-Mae Hill". Diplomat Magazine. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  3. 1 2 Mark. "Webinar: High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda HE Karen-Mae Hill". Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL). Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  4. ↑ "influencing-policy-in-antigua-barbuda | Public Policy|Southampton | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ "Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". mfa.gov.kg. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
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