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'''Kevin Alcena, Ph.D., F.Inst. L.Ex., ACIArb, Chancellor of McHari International College ''' New Providence, Nassau, Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Date of Birth:March 8th, 1959

Place of Birth:Nassau, Bahamas

Raised by my lovely belated grandmother, Serena Pinder Smith; 7th generation Bahamian - Mother: Mrs. Dolly Smith Stevens, Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera; Father Valiere Alcena, M.D., M.A.C.P; Grandmother: Mrs. Serena Pinder Smith; Grandmother: Mrs. May Turnquest, Moss Island, Abaco; Grandfather: Mr. George Turnquest, Long Island; Great Grandmother: Mrs. Beatrice Nixon, Little Farmer's Cay, Exuma.

Religion:Roman Catholic

Profession: Economist; Lawyer; Author; Leading Columnist; Educator; Security Analyst; Arbitrator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK; Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, UK; Artificial Intelligence Analyst; Executive Trust Administrator; and Philanthropist.Chief Economic Advisor to Wellington Miller, President of The Bahamas Olympic Committee; A member of the present Bahamas Olympic Cabinet; President of The Bahamas Federation of Archery.

Community Achievement:

1979 - Founded McHari International College, a non-profit post secondary educational organization.During the past 31 years, over 11,600 students have graduated and achieved various diploma and degree programmes. In addition, McHari International College has awarded $36 million in scholarship endowments by the Alcena Foundation to the Bahamian Society.

1990 - 2001 Launched the Developmental Skills Diploma Programme,which was registered and approved by the Bahamas Ministry of Education in 1992, headed by the late Mrs. Agatha Collie; the late Mr. Kenneth Palmer, former CEO of Bahamas Copier; and Mr. Kenneth Francis, C.B.E., former Publisher of The Nassau Guardian (1844) Ltd., along with 164 Bahamian teachers. I successfully organized a literacy programme for 600 young people, many of whom were involved in violent crimes.Through mentoring, providing positive role models and unconditional love, former gang members abjurated their criminal history and were taught educational skills.I adumbrated the consequences of persisting in their current lifestyle choices and assisted them through legal aid and job placement, free-of-charge. For example, one of the most notorious gang leaders of the Raiders in the late 1990s, Kelcy Lundy, took part in the Developmental Skills Diploma Programme. He was employed by Pepsi Cola Bahamas Ltd. (a job that I found for him) and worked himself up to Production Manager. He is now employed as Production Manager at Aquapure Bahamas Ltd. Kelcy is now married and owns his own home and apartments.

Many of the young people who completed the Developmental Skills Diploma Programme have gone on to become productive and successful professionals.I consider this to be one of my greatest achievements and contribution to the Bahamian society.

Education:

BS Statistics and Minor in Mathematics. ( First Class Honours); LLB ( First Class Honours); LLM International Law. ( First Class Honours); Master of Science (M.Sc. First Class Honours) in International Trust Law & Administration; Justice Professor David Hayton [University of London] as Principal Adjunct Professor; M. S. in Statistics; M.S. In Quantitative Economics; Lawyer (F.Inst.L.Ex) Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, London, United Kingdom with Second Class Honours; Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Union Institute, Ohio. Development Economics: Public Finance and Fiscal Policies; Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), in Clinical Psychology; Chartered Arbitrator, from the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, London, United Kingdom, specializing in Debt Resolution; Higher Diploma in Economic & Financial Forecasting, a post-graduate program at the Oxford Institute, with First Class Honours

Scholastic Curricula of Achievements:

Designed the Developmental Skills Diploma Program, which was registered and approved by the Bahamas Ministry of Education in 1992.This program was designed specifically for government corporations and the hotel industry to train their employees from remedial to college level.Individuals were tested using the Standard Aptitude Test, which included English grammar, comprehension, spelling, vocabulary and mathematics.

Conducted Ph.D. research at the School of Economics, University of London, on the topic “An Inquiry into the Debt of a Nation – The International Debt Crisis and the Case of The Bahamas” – 30th June 1995.

Researched and developed the Multi-Exchange Currency Software Package for InFoTech. Designed the first ever Anti-Money Laundering (AML)Program in The Bahamas, which was registered and approved by the Bahamas Ministry of Education dated May 2nd, 2001.The Office of The Attorney General [Bahamas] also endorsed the Anti-Money Laundering Program on March 20th, 2001.Participants were trained and certified from organizations such as the Central Bank of The Bahamas, Financial Intelligence Unit, Securities Commission of the Bahamas, among many offshore banks and law firms in the Bahamas.

Lecturers who participated in the AML Program are as follows: Mr. Charles H. Morley, President, The Morley Group Ltd. (world-renown compliance guru); Former Chief Investigator, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (1980 - 1985) Former Special Agent, IRS Criminal Investigation Division (1969 - 1980) Arlington, Virginia; Mr. Hassanali Mehran, Former Senior Advisor at Monetary & Exchange Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF); Mr. Peter Charleton, Alternate Executive Director, Canadian/Irish/Caribbean OfficeInternational Monetary Fund (IMF); Mr. Frits van Beek, Former Assistant Director of the Immediate Office, Western Hemisphere Department, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF); Ms. Pamela J. Johnson, Senior Anti-Money Laundering Coordinator, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, U. S. Federal Reserve System; Ms. Susan Lea Smith, Senior Trial Attorney, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Mr. Jack Armstrong, Assistant Director, Office of International Programs, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Washington, D.C. [The McHari Anti-Money Laundering Diploma Program, being the first of its kind in the Region, has been uniquely designed to provide both “tax haven” jurisdictions and non-“tax haven” jurisdictions with the benchmarked “Standard” manpower skills, professionalism and dexterity required in the management of both financial and non-financial institutions regarding anti-money laundering mechanisms.]

Designed the world acclaimed “Alcena’s Principles” currently used by McHari in the Bachelors and Masters degree programmes in Convergent Technologies and Distributed Artificial Intelligence.These programmes were registered and approved by the Bahamas Ministry of Education dated May 2nd, 2001.[The Alcena’s Distributed Artificial Intelligence Principles are aimed at bringing together divergent approaches from various sub-fields and other disciplines to resolve conflicting organizations.This programme is the first of its kind in the world and has been designed to assist with computational systems such as knowledge-based systems, or multi-agent systems that are impacted during problem solving or during communication.][The Alcena’s Convergent Technologies Standard recognizes the need for a collectivity approach by adopting the tools of human interaction – images, video, sound and text – and digitally transmits, stores, combines and manipulates all the approaches into ingenious ways that are still being discovered and perfected.This programme is also the first of its kind in the world, which would impact students and the business community by exposing new and exciting opportunities in communication methodologies.] Designed McHari International College’s Counterterrorism programme.[The Certificate Course in Counterterrorism is the first of its kind to be offered in the world.This four-day conference has been designed to provide to intelligence agency personnel, police, customs, members of the Office of the Attorney-General, civil aviation security personnel, military and para-military personnel the edge they need to counter, respond, mitigate and envisage potential attacks.] In 1996, founded the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX), London, in the Bahamas.Coordinated agreement between ILEX and McHari College to offer the ILEX courses to prospective legal executives.

In 1999, negotiated partnership with Deloitte and Touche and McHari College to offer the Master of Science Degree Programme in International Trust Law and Administration through McHari.

In 1999, invited and organized visit of Mr. Geoffrey Shindler, Chairman of STEP International, UK to lecture to McHari's students.Subsequently, founded the STEP programme in The Bahamas.

Consulted with the House of Lords in England to invite the Rt. Hon. Lord Woolf of Barnes and the Rt. Hon. Lord Millet to deliver lectures in The Bahamas in December 2000.This was highlighted by Justice Joan Sawyer President of the Court of Appeal in the Bahamas.

Negotiated historic Articulation Agreements [signed for the first time with a Bahamian Institution] in the superior educational ambit between the McHari International College, a non-profit company duly incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, and the following organizations:Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Cuba, as was established in the Marc Convene signed by both parties in the City of Havana, May 2002,The Higher Technical University "Jose Antonio Echeverria" in Havana City, Cuba on August 30th, 2006, Havana University, Havana City, August 2006.

Subsequent to receiving the above Articulation Agreements, McHari received a letter dated May 4, 2007 from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [signed by Dr. Leon Higgs, Director of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning] recognizing all of the degree and diploma programmes covered in the agreements, mainly the Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. Degrees offered by McHari College.[McHari has graduated over 11,000 students from its various programmes since 1979.]

2006 - Developed historic Bachelor's and Master's Degree Programmes in Clinical Pharmacy through McHari College and the Havana University of Cuba.These programmes were approved by the Bahamas Pharmaceutical Association on March 30th, 2007.

MI College held the historical graduation at Government House where over 400 Bahamian students graduated including Dr Myles Munroe. Additionally, 13 senior Police Officers (Superintendents and above) received their Masters Degrees. It has made the Bahamian Police Force the most professional in the world.

MI College is the first indigenous Bahamian institution to have been granted permission to offer the LLB, LLM and 12PhD programmes.