For­mer banker and for­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC), Ha­dyn Git­tens, has been sworn-in as the new Chair­man of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion.

His ap­point­ment comes as the term of Pro­fes­sor Ra­jen­dra Ramjo­gan came to an end yes­ter­day (Jan­u­ary 11, 2024).

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo pre­sent­ed Mr Git­tens with his In­stru­ment of Ap­point­ment to­day.

Haydn Git­tens is a Busi­ness and Fi­nan­cial Con­sul­tant with more than 40 years of broad-based fi­nan­cial sec­tor ex­pe­ri­ence, both as a mar­ket op­er­a­tor and as a reg­u­la­tor.

He holds a Mas­ter of Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion (MBA) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­ches­ter Busi­ness School, as well as a Mas­ter of Sci­ence (MSc) in Ac­count­ing, and a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence (BSc) in In­dus­tri­al Man­age­ment—both from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.

Mr. Git­tens served some 28 years at the Roy­al Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go and Ja­maica, where he rose to the po­si­tion of Group Head, Cor­po­rate Bank­ing. Af­ter his time with Roy­al Bank, he served as the Gen­er­al Man­ag­er of the Bank of Saint Lu­cia Lim­it­ed from Oc­to­ber 2013 to May 2016.

He be­came Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC) from Au­gust 2017 to Ju­ly 2020.

Since leav­ing the TTSEC in 2020, Mr. Git­tens has been work­ing as a Busi­ness and Fi­nan­cial Con­sul­tant.