Elizabeth Solomon is CARICOM’s Assistant Secretary-General, Foreign and Community Relations. A citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, she has more than thirty years of legal, communications, and foreign service experience, at both regional and international levels. She has served in various senior-level capacities in the United Nations system, covering complex conflict recovery, governance and foreign relations issues, including in the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary General’s Good Offices Mission in Cyprus; the Office of the Resident Coordinator, Sierra Leone; and UN Missions in Kosovo and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has also served in the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in New York, as Team Leader for the Caribbean Desk. A certified Mediator and Arbitrator, she also served as Judge at the Industrial Court of Trinidad and Tobago.