Dr San­dra Sookram has been ap­point­ed deputy Gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go for a five-year term ef­fec­tive Ju­ly 13.

Pri­or to join­ing the Cen­tral Bank, Sookram held the po­si­tion of Fel­low at the Sir Arthur Lewis In­sti­tute of So­cial and Eco­nom­ic Stud­ies (SALIS­ES), UWI, St Au­gus­tine, where she served as its aca­d­e­m­ic co­or­di­na­tor.A state­ment from the Cen­tral Bank said Sookram has a "pro­lif­ic aca­d­e­m­ic back­ground through schol­ar­ly work in ref­er­eed jour­nals and pub­li­ca­tions of chap­ters in var­i­ous books.

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, a sig­nif­i­cant part of her ca­reer has been de­vot­ed to su­per­vis­ing stu­dents in the MSc and MPhil/PhD pro­grammes at SALIS­ES.

Gov­er­nor Jwala Ram­bar­ran said: "Dr Sookram is an ac­claimed mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary econ­o­mist with in­no­v­a­tive, thought-pro­vok­ing per­spec­tives on eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment is­sues. Dr Sookram al­so dis­tin­guished her­self on the UWI Cam­pus for tak­ing the time and mak­ing the ef­fort to nur­ture young econ­o­mists. Her ca­reer as an econ­o­mist, re­searcher and men­tor makes her par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­ed to join the Cen­tral Bank as Deputy Gov­er­nor and to lead its re­search, sta­tis­tics and fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty func­tions."