Rev. Dr. Iva Camille Gloudon

Rev. Dr. Iva Camille Gloudon in October 2015 completed a four-and-a-half-year diplomatic assignment as the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to Jamaica; non-resident Ambassador to the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti and the Permanent Representative to the International Seabed Authority.

She has also worked for over thirty years in the field of Sport and Physical Education culminating in her professional position for twenty-five years as Director of Sport and Physical Education at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. 

Dr. Gloudon was an accomplished field hockey athlete at Diego Martin Government Secondary and represented Trinidad and Tobago internationally for over ten years.  She was the 1979 Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Hockey Player of the Year and in 1992 became the first and only woman to win the Trinidad and Tobago Sports Administrator of the Year award.  Dr. Gloudon, in 2000, was named one of Trinidad & Tobago’s top twenty (20) Sport Administrators of the Millennium.  She is also a past president of the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Hockey Association and the Trinidad and Tobago Women’s Football Association.

Dr. Gloudon is a recipient of a Trinidad and Tobago National Sports Scholarship (1980) which enable her to attend University in the USA where she completed her Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral degrees in Sport & Physical Education.  She is also a recipient of the Commonwealth Sports Award (2012) and the Caribbean Awards for Sport Icons (2015). Her alma mater, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA awarded her the 2016 Seth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement.

Dr. Gloudon has taught at all levels of education, from elementary school to university, in various local and international institutions.   

She is the founder and director of University Placement Consultancy Limited, a nonprofit/philanthropic organisation that facilitates the international university placement of high school students from Trinidad and Tobago and across the Caribbean.

Most importantly, Dr. Gloudon has been a practicing Christian for the past twenty-three years and is a member of Trinidad Christian Center.  She is an ordained Minister of the Gospel.

Dr. Gloudon has mothered three girls, Jamila, Q’wando and Shania.