Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte was appointed Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs in January 2022. She is a Member of Parliament who has served in both Houses of Parliament of Jamaica. She previously served as Opposition Senator Senate Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (2012 – 2014) and Shadow Minister of Health (2015 – 2016). She is the former Attorney General of Jamaica where she served from 2016 to 2022. Hon. Forte holds a Master of Pdeublic Administration (MPA) Degree and Diploma in Public Policy and Management from Harvard University, a Master of Law (LLM) Degree in Commercial Laws with further specialty in Financial and Regulatory Laws (Commonwealth Scholar) from King’s College London, a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) (Hons) from the University of the West Indies in Barbados, a Certificate of Legal Education from the Norman Manley Law School (Jamaica) and Diploma in International Arbitration and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London.  She is also a Yale World Fellow and alum of Yale University.