Timothy Harris

Who is Timothy Harris?

Dr. the Hon. Timothy Sylvester Harris served as the foreign minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis from August 10, 2001 to January 25, 2013. Harris grew up in the rural village of Tabernacle. He attended the Cayon High School and Basseterre High School before making his journey to six university campuses, two in the Caribbean and four in Canada.

In 1988, Harris graduated from the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies with a B.Sc degree with a First Class Honours in Accounting. The only graduate of the B.Sc Accounting programme to obtain this distinction. He also received the Victor Crooke Prize for Best Accounting Student. He returned home and worked for two years at managerial level with S. L. Horsfords and Co Ltd.

In 1990-92 he pursued his M.Sc degree in Accounting at the St Augustine Campus of UWI in Trinidad. He graduated top of the class with an M.Sc degree with a Distinction in Accounting.

In 2001 Harris successfully defended his Ph.D dissertation at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The doctoral programme is a joint Ph.D programme involving Concordia University, Mc Gill and two French Universities H.E.C. and UQAM. Harris holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Administration majoring in Accounting.