Henry Charles

Mr. Henry Charles is Saint Lucian and currently works as the Regional Director for the CYP Caribbean Centre in Guyana.

He graduated with a Masters in Business Administration from the University of the West Indies (UWIT) in Barbados , and has a Certificate in Mass Communications.

Before joining the Commonwealth Secretariat, Mr Charles was a leading member of the Youth Movement for over two decades and helped to re-establish the Saint Lucia National Youth Council in 1985. He then became the General Secretary of the Saint Lucia Civil Association and a Counselor for youth offenders at the Saint Lucia Boys Training Center.

"CYP and its partners must be repositioned to become the crafters of a new socio-political architecture and engine of the paradigm shift in youth development."