Wendell Mottley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Wendell Mottley

athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1941

Place of Birth: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Profession: politician, economist, athletics competitor

Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Wendell Mottley

  • Wendell Adrian Mottley ORTT (born 2 July 1941 in Port of Spain) is a Trinidad & Tobago economist, politician and athlete.
  • He was the leader of the Citizens' Alliance, a dissolved minor political party in Trinidad and Tobago, which received 5,955 votes (1%) and captured no seats in the 2002 general election. Mottley was educated at Queen's Royal College and subsequently attended Yale University, where he became a member of St.
  • Anthony Hall.
  • He served as Finance Minister in the People's National Movement government between 1991 and 1995.
  • He was responsible for the flotation of the Trinidad and Tobago dollar.As a sportsman, he won a silver medal and a bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
  • He also took two gold medals at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, winning in the 440 yards and the 4×440 yards relay events. Mottley served as a Senior Advisor and investment banker at Credit Suisse in New York, and he is now working with the current government of Trinidad and Tobago in making C.S.
  • First Boston the bank of choice for all international business of the present government.
  • He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development, a United States-based think tank, where he contributed "Industrial Policy in Trinidad and Tobago", focused on governance in an oil rich state.

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