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Jude Houston
Executive Director of St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Mr. Houston is a trained Macro Economist, specialized in economic policy analysis, macro-economic models, quantitative analysis, and project management. He currently holds the position Executive Director of the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Prior to assuming the role of Executive Director of the St. Maarten Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Houston worked with the Government of Sint Maarten over a 9-year period as Senior Economic Advisor within the Ministry of Tourism, economy, Transport and Telecommunication. In this position Mr. Houston played a very integral and important role towards the formulation and development of several projects, programs and strategies geared towards economic development. He was the lead economist for the Smaartmodel, the macro model of Sint Maarten. His responsibilities included monitoring sectoral developments, and the preparation of economic baselines which include the compiling, monitoring, and forecasting of key economic indicators of the economy which was then used for policy development.
During that same period, Mr. Houston held the position of the country’s Systemic Innovation Director under 10th EDF project, that focused primarily on the Business Sector of the Overseas Countries and Territories.
Mr. Houston also worked with the Government of Grenada, as a Statistician where he played an instrumental role in conducting research and surveys in determining the sector’s contribution towards National Output or the Gross National Product of the country. His expertise was also rendered to the Island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines where he worked under the European Development Funded Project named: The Agricultural Diversification Project, as the project’s Development Officer, carded with the task of developing and monitoring the implementation of Agricultural Projects.
Currently, as Director of the St. Maarten’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, one of Mr. Houston’s main objectives apart from the maintenance of the Businesses Registrar, is to formulate strategies and methods of ensuring the growth and development of our prospective, new, and existing businesses and entities within the business registrar of St. Maarten.