Wendell Adrian Mottley educated at Queen's Royal College is a Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

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 economist

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, politician

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 and athlete. He was the leader of the Citizens' Alliance, a dissolved minor

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 political party

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 in Trinidad and Tobago, which received 5,955 votes (1%) and captured no seats in the 2002 general election

Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2002

Early general elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 7 October 2002, after People's National Movement leader Patrick Manning had failed to secure a majority in the hung parliament produced by the 2001 elections. This time the PNM was able to secure a majority, winning 20 of the 36 seats....

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Mottley attended Yale University

Yale University

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 where he became a member of St. Anthony Hall

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. He served as Finance Minister in the People's National Movement

People's National Movement

The People's National Movement is the present-day opposition political party in Trinidad and Tobago. Founded in 1955 by Eric Williams, it won the 1956 General Elections and went on to hold power for an unbroken 30 years. After the death of Williams in 1981 George Chambers led the party...

 government between 1991 and 1995. He was responsible for the flotation of the Trinidad and Tobago dollar

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As a sportsman, he won a silver medal and a bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics

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 in Tokyo

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. He also took two gold medals at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

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, winning in the 440 yards and the 4×440 yards relay events.

A Senior Advisor and investment banker at Credit Suisse in New York, he is now working with the current government of Trinidad and Tobago in making C.S. First Boston the bank of choice for all international business of the present government. He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development

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, a United States

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-based think tank, where he contributed "Industrial Policy in Trinidad and Tobago", focused on governance in an oil rich state.