Global South Policy Hub Expert
Kai-Ann Skeete is a nonresident fellow at the Global South Policy Hub. She is the Trade Policy Research Fellow at the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade, Law, Policy and Services based at the UWI Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Her substantial training is in the fields of international relations, trade, and political science. Kai-Ann’s doctoral thesis dealt with the Caribbean’s approach to regional integration and advanced recommendations on the governance of the labor regime from the Institute of International Relations, UWI St. Augustine, Trinidad.
Dr. Skeete’s research interests include CARICOM’s forward trade agenda, Caribbean regional integration, specifically the implementation, administration, and monitoring of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), the Caribbean private sector forward trade agenda, geopolitics, customs and port operations, security studies, and regional governance systems. Dr. Skeete’s recent publications include chapters or journal articles on Caribbean small states’ regionalism, CARICOM diplomacy, CARICOM-African trade relations, artificial intelligence, and CARICOM’s enlargement.
Kai-Ann is a Caribbean regionalist and speaks French, Spanish, and Italian, and is always keen to learn other languages. Kai-Ann is the mother of 9-year-old Joshua, and in her free time, she devotes her time to traveling around the world and discovering Caribbean culture.
March 23 2026
The Caribbean should be viewed as a heterogeneous region of contradictions. In recent decades, some Caribbean countries have evolved from mere small island developing states into petro-states and large ocean states...
