Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine is the Principal of the UWI, St. Augustine, and Professor of Labour Law and Offshore Financial Law. She holds a doctorate in law from Oxford, LLM from Cambridge and the LLB from the UWI. Antoine is an attorney, award winning scholar and author, international consultant, temporary Court of Appeal judge and activist. She was elected President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, the only person from Trinidad and Tobago. She held OAS Rapporteurships for Persons of African Descent and Indigenous Peoples and was Head of the OAS Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Unit. She was CARICOM Chair on HIV, Migration and the CARICOM Regional Commission on Marijuana. She is the President of the Family Planning Association, a Cambridge Fellow, a member of Trinidad & Tobago’s Industrial Relations Advisory Committee, an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Trust Practitioners (STEP), the only Caribbean person.

The historic twice winner of Vice Chancellor’s Award of Excellence, for Research, then for Public Service, Antoine has published 15 books and numerous scholarly articles. She was honoured by UWI Cave Hill Campus as an ‘’Outstanding Alumnus’(2018) and as an Eminent Jurist- Pioneering Caribbean Woman by the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2021. She served as Consultant to all of the governments in the Caribbean, UK, Venezuela, USA and Canada, the judiciary and international organizations, including the EU, OAS, IADB, World Bank, CDB, CARICOM, UNDP, OECS, UNICEF, ILO, UNIFEM, CAREC, PANCAP, UNAIDS, UNDCP, and ECLAC, drafting legislation and authoring influential, often path-breaking Policy Reports on several varied issues prioritizing Caribbean legal development. She is described by governments and others as the “foremost labour law expert in Labour Law in the region,” the “leading” authority in the region in International Financial Law and HIV law and a ‘’change agent’’. Antoine is committed to development within the framework of human rights. She enjoys painting, gardening and is a trained classical singer.