THE HON. ALOUN N’DOMBET-ASSAMBA
MINISTER OF TOURISM, ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE

The Hon. Aloun N’dombet-Assamba was appointed in October 2002 as Minister of Industry and Tourism and appointed again in April 2006 as Minister of Tourism, Entertainment and Culture for Jamaica.  She served as Minister of State in the previous Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Technology, and is an attorney in both public- and private-sector practice.  

She was the General Manager of the City of Kingston Co-operative Credit Union and as has served as founding Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the Fair Trading Commission; Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission; a member of the Jamaican Bar Association; and a board member and treasurer of the Canadian University Service Overseas (CUSO).  In addition she has worked as an active member, mediator and trainer for the Dispute Resolution Foundation of Jamaica.  In 2000, she received the Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame award from the Kiwanis Club of New Kingston; and in 1999, the American Biographical Institute named her Woman of the Year and appointed her to its Professorial Advisory Board. 

In 1991, she became the first Caribbean national to be awarded the prestigious Heinz Fellowship by the Heinz Foundation.  She was also cited in 1986 as “one of the future leaders of the Commonwealth” when she participated in the Sixth Commonwealth Duke of Edinburgh Study Conference in Sydney, Australia.  Minister Ndombet-Assamba is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, the Norman Manley Law School, and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.