Claudia EmmanuelNon-Executive Director

    Ms. Claudia Emmanuel was appointed as a Director of Trinidad Cement Limited on September 25, 2018. Ms. Emmanuel is a financial services consultant specialising in legal, risk, governance, and compliance matters. She is a multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional lawyer and risk professional, with a BA (Hons) in Economics, with two decades of solid corporate and commercial experience.

    Ms. Emmanuel has held several positions, many of which required the highest standard of integrity, ethics, and accountability. Ms. Emmanuel was the Head of Enterprise Risk Management for Amicorp Bank and Trust Limited, wherein she established the risk function. Ms. Emmanuel is a former President/Cofounder of Emunite Fiscal Solutions Limited and Emunite Energy Solutions Limited. These companies focused on economic development via sustainable renewable energy projects. She has served as the CEO of Trinidad and Tobago Securities & Exchange Commission with executive responsibilities for the day-to-day management and the regulation of the securities industry within Trinidad and Tobago.

    Ms. Emmanuel was a director and Head of Legal for State Street Global Advisors Limited (an asset management company), State Street Unit Trust Management Limited (a unit trust company), and Managed Pensions Funds Limited (an insurance company). Her remit spanned Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, where she advised these financial institutions and investors on all legal, risk management, and regulatory aspects of transactions and corporate activity within the financial markets.

    Upon qualification as a lawyer, Ms. Emmanuel joined the law firm, Clifford Chance LLP, where she advised on various private equity and corporate projects.