Marsha Caddle Email & Phone Number

Marsha Caddle is a Barbadian economist and public policy strategist who now serves as Barbados' Minister of Industry, Innovation, Science and Technology.A former Minister for Economic Affairs and Investment in Barbados from 2018-2022, she helped lead Barbados’ 2018 economic recovery programme, which saw the country’s depleted foreign reserves increase eightfold by the end of the term, and its debt and arrears fall by a third following an international and domestic debt restructuring. She was ministerial negotiator on climate finance for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in Glasgow, 2021, introducing in the outcome document for the first time the use of specialized instruments like redistributed Special Drawing Rights for scaled up finance in climate vulnerable nations. She also led the first reform of physical planning and land use policy in over 50 years.She has led the Governance practice at the Caribbean Development Bank, the Poverty Reduction Programme at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Eastern Caribbean, and the Economic Security and Rights Programme of the then United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Caribbean.In her current role, she is leading the establishment of a data and technology industry in Barbados, driven by the distribution of AI computational power to startups and research technologists, to help them build solutions to local and global problems. She is also responsible for developing and guiding execution of Barbados’s Sustainable Industrial Policy, ensuring a just, low-carbon transition at the center of the country’s economic growth and diversification.She is a pioneer economist in gender equitable macroeconomic policy frameworks, and is a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics (GEM-IWG). Her areas of work are climate finance and green industrial policy; poverty, inequality and human development; public investment, growth and competitiveness; financing for development; physical planning; and data and national statistics. Her work experience in economic policy and human development spans over 20 countries. She has written and spoken extensively on matters of equality and economic and climate justice.Marsha Caddle is an elected Member of Parliament in the Barbados House of Assembly.

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