Hamid Ghany is Professor of Constitutional Affairs and Parliamentary Studies and Honorary Professor at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES). He previously served as Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences (1999-2003), Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (2003-2012) and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (2017-2021) at The UWI St. Augustine campus. His research interests lie in the areas of constitutional affairs and parliamentary studies. Some of his key publications include Constitutional Development in the Commonwealth Caribbean (Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston and Miami, 2018), “Correcting Arend Lijphart’s Hybrid VI : the case of Guyana” in The Journal of Legislative Studies, (2020) Vol. 26(2) 314-327, “Constitutional Design in the Commonwealth Caribbean” in The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions by Richard Albert, Derek O’Brien and Se-shauna Wheatle (eds.)(2020: Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York), “Prorogation in Commonwealth Caribbean Countries : An analysis of the relevance of the Miller decision” in The Journal of Legislative Studies, (2024) doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2335711. After his retirement in 2021, he continued to serve The UWI as an Honorary Professor attached to SALISES and continues his academic writing and publications.