Karen-Mae Hill
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Karen-Mae Hill | |
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| High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Kingdom | Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Antigua and Barbuda to the Republic of Estonia | |
| Assumed office November 2015 | |
| Prime Minister | Gaston Browne |
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| Education | University of Oxford, University of Leicester |
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] Non-resident Ambassador to Ireland, the Federal Republic of Germany and Lithuania.[5]
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]
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,[6] making Antigua and Barbuda the 125th jurisdiction to do so.[7] Also in 2018, Hill met with officials from the Home Office's Windrush Task Force.[8]
In 2021, Hill signed the Joint Communiqué that established of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and Antigua and Barbuda.[9][10]
In 2022, Hill was appointed as Ordinary Officer of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire, OBE for services to Youth and Community Development.[11] Also in 2022, Hill visited Jersey in the Channel Islands to visit catering venues that have hired Caribbean workers to fill labour shortages.[12]
In 2023, Hillwas elected President of Administration and Budget Committee at 173rd Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) General Assembly in Paris.[13][14]