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Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo

Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Marital Status: Married
Education Qualifications:

  • Master’s in business administration at Aix-Marseilles University, France
  • Post Graduate qualifications in Export Marketing at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce-Marseilles

Career:
Professional

  • Doctor Honoris Causa of Dauphine University, Paris.
  • Economist at the Ministry of Commerce & Industry from 1973 to 1980 and has assumed the position of Commissioner for Trade Fairs.
  • Investment Advisor between 1991 to 2014.
  • Chairman of the State Bank Mauritius between 1998 to 2001.
  • Executive Chairman of the Net Mauritius (an ICT Company), having as shareholders Air Mauritius, State Bank of Mauritius and Mauritius Telecom.
  • He presided over the National Steering Committee on the Offshore Sector at around the same period.

Political

  • Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance for period 1983 to 1990.
  • Member of Parliament as from December 2014.
  • 2nd Member for Constituency No. 7 Piton & Riviere du Rempart.
  • Minister of Finance and Economic Development as from 15 December 2014 to March 14 2016.
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade as from 14 March 2016 to 23 January 2017
  • Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade as from 24 January 2017