The Tribune

COMMONWEALTH Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma was due to arrive yesterday for a three-day official visit to The Bahamas, during which he is scheduled to meet the Governor General, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Attorney General and other senior government officials.

While in Nassau, Mr Sharma will discuss with government officials the preparations for next year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation projects in the country and the 19th Commonwealth Conference of Education Ministers to be hosted in The Bahamas in 2015 among other Commonwealth issues.

Tomorrow afternoon Mr Sharma – who has been Secretary General since 2008 – will give a lecture to the public on ‘Youth in The Commonwealth’ at The College of The Bahamas’ Harry C Moore Auditorium as part of the Emerging Leaders Distinguished Lecture Series.

Mr Sharma, formerly India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, was educated at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Cambridge University. He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation and was formerly a Director of the International Peace Academy in New York. He was awarded a medal for services to internationalism by the Foreign Policy Association of the United States. Mr Sharma is a Fellow of Harvard University, and holds honorary doctorates from De Montfort and Middlesex Universities in the UK.