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36 GUARDIAN MEDIA LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES PROFESSOR ANTOINE was appointed as an Independent Director of the Board of Guardian Media Limited in 2023. She is the Principal of the UWI, St. Augustine, and Professor of Labour Law and Offshore Financial Law. She holds a doctorate in law from Oxford, LLM from Cambridge and the LLB from the UWI. Antoine is an attorney, award winning scholar and author, international consultant, temporary Court of Appeal judge and activist. She was elected President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, the only person from Trinidad and Tobago. She held OAS Rapporteurships for Persons of African Descent and Indigenous Peoples and was Head of the OAS Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Unit. She was CARICOM Chair on HIV, Migration and the CARICOM Regional Commission on Marijuana. She is the President of the Family Planning Association, a Cambridge Fellow, a member of Trinidad & Tobago%u2019s Industrial Relations Advisory Committee, and the only Caribbean person to be an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Trust Practitioners (STEP).Professor Antoine%u2019s remarkable contributions have earned her recognition by the Vice Chancellor%u2019s Award for Excellence, for Research, and Public Service making her a historic two-time winner. Her impressive body of work also includes 15 published books and a plethora of scholarly articles. Further, she was recently honoured by the Network of Non-Governmental Organisations of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement of Women on the occasion of International Women%u2019s Day 2024. Professor Antoine%u2019s accolades also include the esteemed Inspirational Champion of Women Award by the International Women%u2019s Forum T&T (IWFTT) in the year 2023. Additionally, she also received the coveted %u201cOutstanding Alumnus%u201d award from The UWI Cave Hill Campus in 2018 and was given the prestigious recognition as an Eminent Jurist-Pioneering Caribbean Woman by the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2021. Professor Antoine has served as a consultant to numerous governments, including those in the Caribbean, UK, Venezuela, USA, and Canada, as well as international organisations such as the EU, OAS, IADB, World Bank, CDB, CARICOM, UNDP, OECS, UNICEF, ILO, UNIFEM, CAREC, PANCAP, UNAIDS, UNDCP, and ECLAC. She has been instrumental in drafting legislation and producing influential policy reports on various issues highlighting Caribbean legal development. Governments and other esteemed organisations have lauded her as the foremost expert in Labour Law in the region, a leading authority in International Financial Law and HIV Law, and a transformative change agent. Professor Antoine is wholeheartedly committed to development within the framework of human rights. In her leisure time, she enjoys painting and gardening and is a trained classical singer.PROFESSOR ROSE-MARIE ANTOINENON-EXECUTIVEDIRECTORBoard of