Hilaire

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

ST. LUCIAN Dr. Ernest Hilaire is being tipped to become the West Indies Cricket Board's (WICB) next chief executive, following the recent resignation of Bruce Aanensen.

Though applications for the position close on September 15, CMC Sports understands that Hilaire has already found favour with the board and is the current front-runner to land the position.

If he gets the post, Hilaire will bring a wealth of experience with him after he served as CEO of the St. Lucian Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the International Cricket Council's World Cup, held earlier this year in the Caribbean.

He has also served as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Sport in St. Lucia and in 1997 was appointed by then Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony as his attaché.

Hilaire is a graduate of the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies where he completed a Bachelor of Science degree, with a double major in political science and sociology. He created history in the process, by becoming the first student to obtain first-class honours in the programme.

In 1995, Hiliare competed his Master of Philosophy degree, with a distinction, in international relations at Darwin College, Cambridge University.

A former president of the Caribbean Federation of Youth, Hilaire also served as a foreign service cadet in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs. Aanensen resigned the position recently, less than four months after taking up the post left vacant by Barbadian Roger Brathwaite.