Former People’s National Movement government minister Dr Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde has been appointed acting deputy principal of The University of the West Indies’ Open Campus.
Her appointment took effect from August 1, according to a statement from UWI yesterday. Dick-Forde has served in UWI for over 28 years. She began her career as an accounting academic at the Cave Hill campus in 1991 in the department of management studies, after attaining a bachelor’s in accounting from the Cave Hill campus with first-class honours and a master of philosophy in finance from the University of Cambridge England, on full scholarship from the Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowship.
She also read for her PhD in accounting (social and environmental accounting) at the University of Dundee, Scotland, with full scholarships from the Dundee University International Students’ Scholarship for year one and an Association of Commonwealth Universities Scholarship for the remaining two years.
While completing her doctoral dissertation, Dick-Forde pursued the certified management accounting certification with CMA Canada.
This was fully funded by the Society of Management Accountants of Canada, as a part of their support for professional development for accounting academics at the Cave Hill campus. She also earned Fellowship status with CPA Canada, in 2014.
Over her 17 years at the UWI, Cave Hill campus, she served as an acting head of department and deputy head of department and led the first self-assessment report for the programme review of the bachelor’s accounting degree.
She also served as assistant chief examiner for CAPE Accounting with the Caribbean Examinations Council and as deputy dean distance and outreach for three years under the deanship of Sir Frank Alleyne from 2000-2003.
Dick-Forde resigned from the Cave Hill campus at the end of 2007, after she was asked to serve in the government by then Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
From November 2007 to May 2010, she served as government senator and minister of planning, housing and the environment. In September 2010, she resumed her service to the region at UWI, when she joined the Open Campus as head, special projects.
