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Asokore H. R. Beckles is Chairman and CEO of Asokore Industries, the global holding company, and of the McBeck Group of Companies, its principal operating group. The McBeck Group manages subsidiaries across real estate development, mining, venture capital, energy, agribusiness, and infrastructure in the Caribbean, South America, North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Named operating subsidiaries include Pifini Inc, the property development arm, and McBeck Mining, the extractives arm.

Alongside the group operations, his analytical practice is public service in the plainest sense. Fiscal risk systems design, macroeconomic and fiscal databases, and the analytic work that informs medium-term budgeting and sovereign debt management, running through the Fiscal Risk Unit of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Barbados. 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 originator of the Blue-Green Token, a proposed 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.