Ayanna Young Marshall is an Attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Barbados and Guyana. She holds the M.Sc. degree in International Business (UWI).

She is currently Lecturer in International Business at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Her research focuses on international business, gender, entrepreneurship and economic sectors with foreign exchange earning potential. She is also Coordinator of the Student Entrepreneurial Empowerment Development (SEED) Project geared at promoting selfemployment among students and graduates of the University.

Ayanna Young Marshall has significant international business, trade policy and private sector development experience. She has prepared briefs, opinions, speeches, policy papers, advised and represented private sector interests at international trade negotiations. Prior to joining UWI she was Deputy Trade Director and International Trade Specialist with the USAID funded Caribbean Trade and Competitiveness Development Programme, Trade Officer at the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Professional Trainee at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery respectively; and consulted on various projects in support of regional governments, international organisations and private sectors in international trade and business. Regarding the arts, she coauthored “Trade Liberalisation and the Cultural Industries Sector in Barbados in light of Negotiations for the CARIFORUM European Economic Partnership Agreement” a paper that addressed the development of the cultural industries. She has served as legal and business advisor to Barbadian entertainers and actors.