Ernest Hilaire
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Ernest Hilaire | |
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 Hilaire in 2025 | |
| 11th Deputy Prime Minister of Saint Lucia | |
| Assumed office 7 January 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Philip J. Pierre |
| Preceded by | Philip J. Pierre (2016) |
| Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information | |
| Assumed office 5 August 2021[1] | |
| Prime Minister | Philip J. Pierre |
| 1st Deputy Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party[2] | |
| Assumed office 28 September 2019 | |
| Leader | Philip J. Pierre |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Member of the Parliament | |
| Assumed office 6 June 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Kennedy Lewis |
| Constituency | Castries South |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Saint Lucia Labour Party |
| Education | University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Darwin College, Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Website | https://ernesthilaire.com [3] |
Ernest Hilaire is a Saint Lucian politician who is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information.[4] Hilaire also serves as the 1st Deputy Political Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party.[5] Hilaire serves in the House of Assembly as the representative for Castries South. Hilaire is the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom for Saint Lucia.[6] He served in opposition from 2016[7] till the landslide victory of the Saint Lucia Labour Party in the 2021 general election.[8]
In the 1990s Hilaire obtained a Bachelor of Science degree[9] at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies.[6] Hilaire made the decision to move from a strictly Sociology major to a double major in Political Science and Sociology.[9] Hilaire served one year as a Foreign Service Cadet and went on to achieve his Master of Philosophy Degree in 1995 with a distinction in International Relations from Darwin College, Cambridge University, England. Hilaire also obtained a PhD from London School of Economics in 2006 with a thesis titled International relations and the shaping of state-societal relations – A postcolonial study.[10][11]