Rena Lalgie is a British civil servant who served as Governor of Bermuda from December 2020 to January 2025. She was the first woman, and the first person of African-Caribbean heritage, to be appointed governor of

Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...

.Meet Rena Lalgie, the first female Black Governor of Bermuda after 400 years
''Motivation Africa''. Accessed 24 July 2020.

Career

Lalgie has worked in various roles for the

Home Office The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is the United Kingdom's interior ministry. It is responsible for public safety and policing, border security, immigr ...

, the

Cabinet Office The Cabinet Office is a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minister and Cabinet ...

, and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. She was director of operations at UK Trade & Investment, now the Department for International Trade. She then became head of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), created within the UK Treasury in 2016 to implement and enforce financial sanctions.Mara Lemos Stein
U.K. Sanctions Agency Prefers Compliance Over Enforcement
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'', 17 January 2017. Accessed 24 July 2020.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Black British women 21st-century British women civil servants Governors of Bermuda 21st-century British women politicians 21st-century British politicians 21st-century British civil servants {{s-end