Mr. Nigel Bennett

Mr. Nigel Bennett was appointed to serve on the BDIC Board as an independent Director, from September 2024. He is the Managing Partner at Court Caribbean Law Practice, a boutique law firm in Barbados. His primary practice areas include corporate & commercial law, International Financial Services, real estate, governance, regulatory & securities matters.

Mr. Bennett previously taught Business Law at BIMAP and conducted short-term training for the CDB on Corporate Governance for regional financial institutions. He also previously served as Legal Counsel at an international subsidiary of RBC Royal Bank of Canada with responsibility for legal, corporate secretarial & corporate compliance matters as well as legal affairs at the Central Bank of Barbados.

Mr. Bennett also served as Group Corporate Secretary for 2 public companies and served on the Financial Services Commission’s Appeals Tribunal which was a quasi-judicial body established under the FSC Act to adjudicate issues arising from its licensees.

Apart from the rigors of the law, Nigel Bennett is an avid hiker on those not so lazy days and has a passion for property development and foreign languages.