 Dr.
Omar Davis is a graduate of the University of the West Indies,
Mona Campus, where he attained his Bachelor’s Degree.
He later went to Northwestern University, in Illinois in the
United States of America, where he achieved his M.S. and Ph.D
degrees.
His is presently, the Minister of Finance and Planning, in
the Government of Jamaica. Prior to that, he served as Minister
without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance, Office of the
Prime Minister with responsibility for Planning, Development
and Project Implementation. He was also was the Director General,
Planning Institute of Jamaica, and was Special Advisor to
the then Minister of Finance.
Dr. Davis was also involved in academia where he was a Senior
Lecturer, Department of Economics,, Senior Research Fellow,
Institute of Social and Economic Research also at the University
of the West Indies and an Assistant Professor at Stanford
University, California in the United States. He also taught
at his alma mater, Glenmuir High School in Clarendon.
During the 1980’s he was a weekly columnist for the
Jamaica Daily News and was also a news analyst on Radio Jamaica.
He was awarded the Archie Lindo Prize for Public Service
in 1985, by the Press Association of Jamaica.
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