Trevor DaCosta
Trevor Eugene Bentley DaCosta (born September 1, 1929 in Saint Andrew Parish , † June 2, 2008 in Washington, DC ) was a Jamaican diplomat .
Life
DaCosta was the son of Isoline Isabell DaCosta and Eugene Hawthorne DaCosta. He holds a diploma from the National College of Food Technology , London and a postgraduate degree in economics from Oxford University . He graduated from McGill University in Montreal and attended Carnegie Endowment for International Peace seminars on international relations .
DaCosta was a member of the Royal Economic Society . He worked in his father's food business in Kingston. In 1956 he entered the service of the British Colonial Authority. His first assignment abroad was at the British Embassy in Mexico City . From 1962 to 1965, after Jamaica's independence from Great Britain, he was First Class Secretary of the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, DC From 1966 to 1972 he was employed by the World Bank as a loan officer for Oman , Egypt and other projects in Central America and Panama . From 1966 to 1968 he studied the economy of Ecuador . In 1972 he was transferred to temporary retirement from this position . From 1972 to 1974, during Michael Manley's first administration, he headed the budget division of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Jamaica.
In 1975 DaCosta received from Elizabeth II the letter of accreditation as ambassador for the governments of Mexico City, Panama City and San José . From 1975 to 1977 he was ambassador to Mexico City and represented the Jamaican government at the Organismo para la Proscripción de las Armas Nucleares en la América Latina y el Caribe OPANAL . As ambassador to Mexico, he was pursuing a joint venture project that was to use the energy from Mexican and Venezuelan mineral oils to reduce Jamaican bauxite to aluminum . From 1978 he was a representative of the Caribbean on the board of directors of the Inter-American Development Bank , where he first served as vice chairman and later as chairman.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
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Jamaican Ambassador to Mexico City April 7, 1975 to 1977 |
Louis Heron Boothe |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trevor DaCosta; Economist in the Washington Post. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ↑ Trevor DaCosta in the Public Library of US Diplomacy.Retrieved May 9, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | DaCosta, Trevor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DaCosta, Trevor Eugene Bentley (full name); Dacosta, Trevor EB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jamaican diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Andrew Parish |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 2008 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |