Emma Hippolyte, OBE, CFE is a Qualified Accountant and certified Fraud Examiner , with more than thirty (30) years of experience in the Public and Private Sector. In Senior Management /Auditing and Banking and Social Security. Emma Hippolyte served as: 1. An Internal Auditor at the Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nation. 2. She was member of the Board of Auditors of the OAS. 3. Director of Audit of the Government of Saint Lucia. 4. Internal Auditor and Head of Administration National commercial Bank of Saint Lucia. 5. Executive Director of the National Insurance Corporation. Currently she is the Minister for Commerce, Manufacturing, Business Development, Cooperative and Consumer Affairs and the Parliamentary representative of Soufriere /Fond St. Jacques, Saint Lucia.