THE CARIBBEAN Shipping Association (CSA) recently announced the appointment of Pauline Gray, the General Manager of the Shipping Association of Jamaica, as the new Executive Vice President for the CSA. The appointment became effective on November 1, 2002.
Mrs. Gray is the first female General Manager of the 64-year-old Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) and was formerly the Executive Director of the Jamaica Exporters Association (JEA) before she joined the SAJ in 2001. Prior to that, she was the Public Relations Manager of the SAJ from 1985 to 1992.
A strong supporter of small business development, Mrs Gray has worked with organisations in the Eastern Caribbean and in Croatia, in developing sustainable models of economic development and specialised technical assistance for these groups.
She has received several awards and honours including a special Shipping Industry Award in 1989. The Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New York honoured her during their salute to Women History Makers in 1998, for her work in the arena of economic development in the Caribbean. She was also Jamaica's Eisenhower Fellow for 1997, the seventh Jamaican to receive this prestigious award since its inception in 1953 and the second woman.
During 2002 under her management, the Shipping Association of Jamaica launched a Montego Bay Chapter, while embarking on an ambitions transformation programme to provide additional value added services to its members and the Maritime Industry at large.
She is President of the Jamaica/Western New York Partners of the Americas Chapter, a Board member of Port Computer Services and the Caribbean Maritime Institute Trust Fund and a Trustee of the Kingston Portworkers Pension Fund.
She also operates a Management Consultant Team. Mrs. Gray is the second female Executive Vice President of the Caribbean Shipping Association, having replaced Monica Silvera, who died in office in 2002.
