Dr. Rudrawatee Nan Gosine-Ramgoolam

DR RUDRAWATEE NAN GOSINE- RAMGOOLAM, PHD

Dr. Rudrawatee Nan Gosine-Ramgoolam is celebrated as a leader who was responsible for transmogrifying personnel division within the Public Service of Trinidad and Tobago into Human Resource Management Divisions via the Ministry of Education (MoE was the pilot Ministry was the pilot Ministry for the rolling of HRM within the Public Service). As the first Human Resource Officer ever appointed in the Public Service of Trinidad and Tobago, was a Senior Human Resource Officer. she pioneered the transition from Personnel Administration to a strategic Human Resource Management model that was subsequently rolled out within the Public Service. Her work at the Ministry of Education therefore produced the model HRM Division, complete with new functional frameworks, structures, job descriptions, and this later rolled out across all ministries and departments. 

Dr. Gosine-Ramgoolam also the first Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Manager in the Public Service (MoE) was introduced as the Pilot to be rolled subsequently to manage the EAP which was subsequently rolled out in all Ministries and Departments,. out employee wellbeing into national HR policy. Her leadership extended to the decentralisation of the Ministry of local government which resulted in the creation of the Municipal Corporations Act No. 21 of 1990, and this local Government Reform helped to shape the modern governance of Local Governance systems that currently exists. 

As Minister of Public Administration, she launched the landmark Green Paper “Transforming the Civil Service: Renewal and Modernisation”, thereby advancing the Public Service Reform Agenda. 

A scholar, educator, and diplomat, she trained generations of public servants and students through the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business and throughout the Caribbean. She also represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally. Her enduring legacy lies in reforms that institutionalised professional Human Resource Management practices that contributed to strengthened governance across the nation and across the region.