Press kit.

Asokore H. R. Beckles is a Caribbean economist and statistician with twenty years across public service, regional labour leadership, and the building of a small group of Caribbean enterprises. He currently serves as Chief Analyst in the Fiscal Risk Unit of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Barbados, where he leads the design of fiscal risk systems and the analytic work that informs medium-term budgeting and policy. He is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, and holds an MSc in Statistics from the University of Southampton.

He writes the Bridgetown Brief, a weekly column on what is moving in Caribbean economies, fiscal policy, and the long view, and is the author of the Blue-Green Token, a working concept for a digital financing ecosystem that uses blockchain and tokenisation to channel investment into terrestrial and marine sustainability projects, designed for small island developing states first.

His earlier career includes service as Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, General Treasurer of the National Union of Public Workers (Barbados), Director and Finance and Audit Committee Chairman at Grantley Adams International Airport, and senior statistical roles at the Barbados Statistical Service and the Economics and Statistics Office of the Cayman Islands. He is a peer-reviewed contributor to the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies and a member of the Royal Statistical Society and the Caribbean Association of Professional Statisticians.

He is from Edgecliff, in the Pine, St. Michael, Barbados.