The new Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NCC) is Kei­ba Ja­cob Mot­t­ley, with ef­fect from May 13, 2024. She is the cur­rent Pres­i­dent of the Art So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A state­ment is­sued by the NCC to­day con­firmed her ap­point­ment.

“NCC Chair­man, Win­ston Gyp­sy Pe­ters, and the Board, Man­age­ment and Staff of the NCC ex­tend best wish­es to Ms. Ja­cob Mot­t­ley for a suc­cess­ful tenure,” the re­lease said, “and whole­heart­ed­ly look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing to de­liv­er val­ue for our share­hold­ers and the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty for Car­ni­val 2025 and be­yond.”

The NCC notes that Ms. Ja­cob Mot­t­ley “brings ex­ten­sive lead­er­ship ex­pe­ri­ence as a for­mer Act­ing Clerk of the Sen­ate, and Deputy Clerk of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives for more than a decade.”

The re­lease said: “She func­tioned as the Deputy Ad­min­is­tra­tive Head of the Of­fice of the Par­lia­ment, with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the gen­er­al man­age­ment of the op­er­a­tions and ac­tiv­i­ties of the Sen­ate, and had di­rect re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the De­part­men­tal Com­mit­tees Unit, Fi­nan­cial Scruti­ny Unit, Par­lia­men­tary Mu­se­um and Gallery Man­age­ment Unit, Li­brary & Archiv­ing Unit, and Hansard Di­vi­sion.”

The new NCC CEO brings to bear sev­er­al years of ex­pe­ri­ence in Fi­nance, Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion, Project Man­age­ment, and Vi­su­al Art and Mu­se­um Ex­hi­bi­tion Cu­ra­tion.

She al­so pos­sess­es sig­nif­i­cant ex­per­tise in lead­ing strate­gic work­force plan­ning, busi­ness trans­for­ma­tion, co­or­di­nat­ing re­search and analy­sis, re­view­ing or­gan­i­sa­tion­al per­for­mance, and draft­ing an­nu­al bud­get plans.

Kei­ba Ja­cob Mot­t­ley holds an MBA in In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion from the Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, a BSc in Pub­lic Sec­tor Man­age­ment, both from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine.