Shirley Skerrit-Andrew is an economist and diplomat from

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, who was appointed Ambassador of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to the European Union on 30 October 2008. At her appointment she became the federation's first non-resident woman ambassador. She held the appointment until 2013, when she was succeeded by Len Ishmael. As the first appointment to a newly created role, she took up her post as High Commissioner to Canada in 2016, with a brief to focus on renewable energy technologies. She was succeeded in the role by

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, who was appointed in 2018. In 2016 she was listed as one of St Kitts and Nevis' '40 Most Powerful Women'.

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H.E. Shirley Skerritt-Andrew, ECS Ambassador in Brussels
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