Sports administrator is new T&T HC to Jamaica

PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar presents the instrument of appointment to Dr Gloudon with ministers Jack Warner and Roodal Moonilal looking on

Trinidad and Tobago's new High Commissioner to Jamaica is Dr Iva Gloudon. She received here instrument of appointment on Thursday from Prime Minister

Dr Gloudon is an educator and sports administrator and is the only person in the Caribbean to hold a doctorate in physical education.

She is a past president of the Trinidad & Tobago Hockey Association and The Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Football Federation and has worked for over 30 years in the field of Sport and Physical Education. She represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally for over 10 years.

In 1979 she was Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Hockey Player of the Year and Trinidad & Tobago Sportswoman of the Year nominee. She became the first and only woman to win the Trinidad and Tobago Sports Administrator of the Year award in 1992.

In 2000 she was named by the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs as one of the top 20 Trinidad and Tobago Sport Administrators of the Millennium and in 2007 and 2010 was the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee’s nominee for the International Olympic Committee Women and Sport Award.

Dr. Gloudon has taught at all levels of education and currently lectures to University of the West Indies undergraduate and graduate students and supervises students in the Sport Management Internship Practicum and Physical Education Field Study programme.

In 2007 Dr. Gloudon received a multi-million dollar grant from the Inter American Development Bank/Ministry of Education to train 77 local physical education teachers.

Dr. Gloudon is the mother of three girls - Jamila, Q’wando and Shania, whom she adopted after the children's father and brother, Michael, died twelve years ago.