Mrs. Jennifer Boucaud-Blake, Deputy Chairman, is a retired career public officer whose service spanned administrative, technical, managerial and leadership positions, culminating in that of Permanent Secretary which she held for the last nine years of her career.
Having mastered the fundamentals of public service operations, augmented by university training and qualifications, she launched into management consultancy with a focus on transformation activities across the public service. Her specialization further expanded when she was promoted to the position of Senior Human Resource Officer in the Ministry of National Security, and steadily elevated to portfolios of Director Human Resources, Deputy Permanent Secretary, and Permanent Secretary. In this last position she was required to provide strategic and administrative leadership in one of the largest and most complex ministries in Trinidad and Tobago, encompassing military, quasi-military and civilian operations.
At the culmination of her career in 2014, she was honored with a National Award- Public Service Medal of Merit (gold).
