His. Hon. Sen. Reginald Farley, JP, CPA, CMA, became the President of the Senate of Barbados in September 2020. He is a Barbadian Chartered Accountant, consultant, former Cabinet Minister and diplomat, who immediately prior to his appointment as President of the Senate, was the High Commissioner of Barbados to Canada.

Sen. Farley holds the Chartered Professional Accountant designation from the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada), a BSc in Economics and Management from the University of the West Indies, and a Teacher’s Diploma from Erdiston Teachers’ College. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB), and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, Nova Scotia Chapter.

Sen. Farley started his career as a teacher before moving to the Barbados Industrial Development Corporation as a Business Development Officer, and then to the Barbados Chamber of Commerce as its Executive Director (1992-1994).

In 1994, Sen. Farley became a Minister of Government and held the portfolios of Industry, Commerce & Business Development (1994-1999); Industry & International Business (1999-2001); Economic Development (2001-2003); Education, Youth Affairs & Sports (2003-2006); and Housing & Lands (2006-2008).

In the Parliament of Barbados, he served as Leader of Government Business in the Senate from 1994 to 1999 and later served as the Member of Parliament for Christ Church East from 1999 to 2008 with the Barbados Labour Party (BLP).

He returned to the private sector, after leaving government, and became the Executive Director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (2009-2018). In 2018, he was appointed High Commissioner of Barbados to Canada and was based in Ottawa until his return to Barbados in September 2020 to become President of the Senate.

Sen. Farley is a consultant whose areas of focus include regulatory compliance, governance, financial management, change management, strategic planning and project management.      

Sen. Farley is married and has two children and two grandchildren.

Jeanie McLean was first elected as a Member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly in 2016 representing the riding of Mountainview and appointed as the Minister of Tourism and Culture, Minister responsible for Women’s Directorate and Minister responsible for Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board. In 2021, Jeanie was re-elected as the Member for Mountainview and appointed as the Minister of Education and Minister responsible for the Women and Gender Equity Directorate.

She served as a member of the Standing Committee on Appointments to Major Government Boards and Committees. She now serves on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and is a co-chair for the Yukon Advisory Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2 Spirit+ Individuals. In her role as Minister of Education, she is also responsible for the establishment of Yukon’s first ever First Nation School Board.

Jeanie previously worked as Director of Justice for Kwanlin Dün First Nation for many years before entering politics. In addition, Jeanie provided significant guidance in the Yukon Policing Review, which resulted in the report Sharing Common Ground, a Review of the Yukon Police Force. She participated in the review of Yukon Corrections as a Yukon First Nation Advisor and served as the Yukon representative to the RCMP Commissioner’s First Nation Policing Advisory Board. Jeanie represented Kwanlin Dün First Nation on the n Yukon Public Safety Committee and Mental Wellness Strategy – First Nation Partnership committee and was the President of the Yukon First Nation Hockey Association. She was also the Vice-Chair of the Tahltan Health and Social Services Authority, for two terms.”

Michael Pettersson MLA is a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, and represents the electorate of Yerrabi. Mr Pettersson is a member of the Australian Labor Party. He was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2020. Mr Pettersson is the Assistant Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. He is also the Chair of the Standing Committee on Education and Community Inclusion, the Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and a member of the Standing Committee on Health and Community Wellbeing. Prior to being elected to the Legislative Assembly, Mr Pettersson worked as a trade union official. Mr Pettersson holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University.

Dr Laurie Brinklow is an Assistant Professor and Co-ordinator of the Master of Arts in Island Studies program / Chair of the Institute of Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Canada. There she facilitates and supports research on sustainable communities on islands around the world, as well as knowledge mobilization and public engagement activities. She also teaches ‘islandness’ in the Master of Arts in Island Studies program and supervises graduate students. She is President of the International Small Island Studies Association and is Iceland’s Honorary Consul to Prince Edward Island. A passionate Islander, her PhD research explored people’s attachment to islands by examining “islandness” in Tasmanian and Newfoundland artists.