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Antigua & Barbuda - Head of Government

The Hon Winston Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister

The Hon Winston Baldwin Spencer, Leader of the United Progressive Party, was called upon to form a new government in Antigua and Barbuda by popular electoral mandate in March 2004, after serving in the House of Representatives for over 15 years as Leader of the Opposition.

On entering office in 2004, Mr Spencer took up the post of Chairman of the Caribbean Community and has been Chairman of the Organisation of Eastern and Caribbean States. He also sat as Co-Chairman of the Summit Meeting between the European Union-Latin American and Caribbean Summit in Mexico in 2004. Mr Spencer was invited to chair one of four Round Tables of Heads of State and Government at the World Summit 2005, at the United Nations General Assembly.

Mr Spencer has spent over a quarter of a century in labour negotiations, and served as 1st Vice-President of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union and before that as Assistant Secretary-General. He was a former President of the Caribbean Maritime and Aviation Council.

Mr Spencer was educated in social leadership at the Coady International Institute, Canada; in labour and economic studies at Ruskin College, Oxford University; and in labour and industrial relation systems at Oslo University, Norway.

Mr Spencer was born on 8 October 1948.