Shawna Lake
Government of St. Kitts

Shawna Lake is the Acting CEO of the recently established St. Kitts Investment Promotion Agency (SKIPA). SKIPA is responsible for advising the Government on ways to improve the overall investment climate, internationally promoting the services and investment opportunities available in St. Kitts and facilitating the establishment of new businesses and development projects on the island. Shawna has been very active in the development of the Financial Services sector of St. Kitts and she is also a member of the country’s local Financial Services Task Force which is the body responsible for ensuring that the regulatory environment for anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism meets international standards. She is the representative of St. Kitts in the OECD Sub-Group on Level Playing Field.

Shawna is an attorney at law by profession. She was formerly Assistant Prosecutor to the Director of Public Prosecutions in St. Kitts for two years and then dealt with civil litigation in the Attorney General’s Chambers for three years before becoming the Director of Marketing and Development in the Ministry of Finance in 2001. She is a member of the bar in St. Christopher and Nevis and also in Anguilla. She also holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Leicester in the UK.