Karen-Mae Hill

Karen-Mae Hill, OBE is the High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda to the United Kingdom and member of the Commonwealth's Board of Governors.^[1][2][3][4] Hill is also the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Antigua and Barbuda to the Republic of Estonia.^[1]

Karen-Mae Hill OBE
High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Kingdom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Antigua and Barbuda to the Republic of Estonia
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2015
Prime Minister	Gaston Browne
Personal details
Education	University of Oxford, University of Leicester

She won a scholarships to study French and law at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom before becoming the first Antiguan to win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.^[2] Hill is a qualified Barrister in English law. She is the founder of the Antigua and Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra,^[3] co-founder and music director at the Potters Youth Group and an advocate for green technology.^[1]

Education

Hill received a Bachelor of Law with French Law and Language (LLB) degree from the University of Leicester, UK. She received a MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, England.^[1]

Career

After receiving her degrees, Hill served as a lawyer in England, Wales, and the Eastern Caribbean.^[2] She also worked in banking in Antigua.^[2]

Hill was appointed High Commissioner in November 2015.^[1] As High Commissioner, she signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters in 2018,^[5] making Antigua and Barbuda the 125th jurisdiction to do so.^[6]

In 2021, she signed the Joint Communiqué that established of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and Antigua and Barbuda.^[7][8]

See also

• Ronald Sanders

• Dario Item
• Carl Roberts (diplomat)
• Claudius Cornelius Thomas

References

1. "High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda to the Court of St. James's". Antigua and Barbuda High Commission. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
2. "Her Excellency Ms Karen-Mae Hill". Diplomat Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 June 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
3. Mark. "Webinar: High Commissioner for Antigua and Barbuda HE Karen-Mae Hill". Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL). Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
4. "influencing-policy-in-antigua-barbuda | Public Policy|Southampton | University of Southampton". www.southampton.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2021-01-07. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
5. "Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters". OECD. Archived from the original on 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
6. "Antigua and Barbuda becomes the 125th jurisdiction to join the most powerful multilateral instrument against offshore tax evasion and avoidance - OCDE". www.oecd.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
7. "Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". mfa.gov.kg. Archived from the original on 2024-04-28. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
8. "Kyrgyzstan establishes diplomatic relations with Antigua and Barbuda". Kabar. Archived from the original on 2024-04-28. Retrieved 2024-01-21.

External links

• Karen-Mae Hill LinkedIn