Wheatley is first Cambridge Policy Fellow from Caribbean

BVI London Office Director Benito Wheatley has been selected as a 2018 Policy Fellow by the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy.

As the Virgin Islands’ United Kingdom and European Union representative, Mr. Wheatley will attend a series of meetings with scholars, business leaders, and senior UK government and EU public servants on the future of the UK’s relationship with its overseas territories, according to the London Office.

Discussion topics are to include UK-OT relations in regard to security, climate change, natural disasters, international business and Brexit.

“The devastation caused by the two Category Five hurricanes in 2017 that hit Anguilla, BVI, Turks and Caicos and other islands in the Caribbean brought into clear focus the importance of Britain’s relationship with the overseas territories,” Mr. Wheatley said. “There is an urgent need to comprehensively review UK-OT policy with a view to reframing the relationship at this point in time to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the 21^st Century.”

Mr. Wheatley is the first official from the Caribbean and from a British overseas territory to be selected as a CSaP Policy Fellow.

He is also the co-chair of the OCT-European Union Partnership Working Party on Financial Services.

He holds a Master of Science in international strategy and diplomacy from the London School of Economics and Bachelor of Arts in political science from Morehouse College in the United States.

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