From UWI Open Campus

Regional
Headquarters, Jamaica. Tuesday, November 26, 2019—The
University of the West Indies (The UWI) announces the appointment of
Mr Aziz Hadeed, CBE, as the Campus Council Chair of its newest campus
at Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda.

Each
Campus of The UWI is governed by a Campus Council—vested by the
University Council—to manage all matters as prescribed in the
University’s Statute 21 and subject to The UWI’s Charter. As
Campus Council Chair, Mr Hadeed will sit at the helm of the governing
and executive body of The UWI Five Islands Campus which officially
began operations in August. His appointment is for a period of five
years and took effect on August 1.

Mr Hadeed is an
Antiguan and Barbudan businessman whose success is well known across
the Eastern Caribbean. Described as one of the Chief Architects of
the Hadeed Group of Companies, his business acumen has been shaped
since his teen years. He joined in managing his family’s businesses
in 1965 after completing his secondary school education and pursued
studies and training in accounting and business through business
correspondences during his career.

In
1980, he ascended to the Chair of the Hadeed Group of Companies and,
through his vision and sound management, the corporation expanded
into a multi-million-dollar enterprise. Under his stewardship, the
Group invested in entities such as the regional airline LIAT (1974)
Limited, on which board he served as chairman from 1995 to 1998. He
is credited with leading the Hadeed Group’s decision to establish a
power generation facility which became the Antigua Power Company in
1996. He currently serves on the boards of the Antigua Power Company
as well as on several businesses within the Hadeed Group.

Mr Hadeed has
enjoyed a distinguished career as an Independent Senator, appointed
in 1994 and serving for two terms. He then served as a Cabinet
Minister from 2004 to 2006 before resigning from government service.

Ernst
& Young named him “Master of the Year for Barbados and the
Eastern Caribbean Awards Scheme” in 1995. In 2016, he received the
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Mr
Hadeed’s expertise and experience will be instrumental in leading
the new Five Islands Campus which was established to serve the
specific development needs of Antigua and Barbuda while providing a
hub to enable the greater participation by The UWI in the development
agendas of the OECS.

Applications
are currently open for entry into degree and certificate programmes
at The UWI Five Islands. For more information visit
www.fiveislands.uwi.edu/apply.

Note:

About
Campus Council

Each
campus has a Council, a governing body with powers as prescribed in
the University’s Statute 21. The Campus Council is constituted in
accordance with Statute 19 and includes the Chair; Vice-Chancellor;
Campus Principal; Deputy Principal; Campus Registrar; Campus Bursar;
Deans of all faculties; representatives of all categories of staff;
representatives of the Guild of Students; representatives of the
Academic Board of other campuses; representatives of the Alumni body;
representatives of the governments of The UWI’s contributing
countries; representatives of Tertiary Level Institutions in the
Caribbean; and nominees appointed by the Chancellor from among
persons in industry, commerce, the professions, the labour movement
and other non-governmental organizations. The Chair of Campus
Council, who is appointed by the Chancellor, serves for a period of
five years and can be re-appointed on the advice of the Chancellor.
The Campus Councils meet annually, largely to receive detailed
reports from officers and committees, which have responsibilities
derived from the University's Charter and other instruments. Such
reports include academic and curriculum updates, statistics on
students, staffing issues and strategic initiatives undertaken.

About
The UWI

For
over 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has
provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider
world. The UWI has evolved from a university college of London in
Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally
respected, regional university with near 50,000 students and five
campuses: Mona in Jamaica,
St. Augustine in Trinidad and
Tobago, Cave Hill in
Barbados, Five Islands
in Antigua and Barbuda and an Open Campus. As part of its robust
globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with
universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa
including the State
University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and
Sustainable Development; the Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute
with Brock University; the Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric
Development with Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES); the UWI-China
Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos
(UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the
Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of
Johannesburg (UJ). The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma,
undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food &
Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical
Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. 

As
the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost
objective is driving the growth and development of the regional
economy. The world’s most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher
Education, has ranked The UWI among the top 600 universities in the
world for 2019 and 2020, and the 40 best universities in Latin
America and the Caribbean for 2018 and 2019. The UWI has been the
only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists. For
more, visit www.uwi.edu.