Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Pamela Coke-Hamilton is a Lawyer and Caribbean trade expert. Since 2019 she has been the director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's division concerned with International Trade and Commodities.

Life
Coke-Hamilton went to school in Jamaica at Manchester High School in Mandeville, Jamaica.

She attended the University of the West Indies where she graduated in Economics and International Relations. She went on to study in Washington DC where she became at Doctor of Law at Georgetown University School of Law.

She began her career in Jamaica's Ministry of Foreign Affair and Foreign Trade.

She was Director of Trade, Tourism and Competitiveness of the OAS from 2007 to 2009. In 2008 she gave evidence to the United States International Trade Commission about Caribbean trade.

Coke-Hamilton was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the West Indies in recognition of the help she had given in helping them to establish a masters course in International Trade Policy.

She established a "Caribbean exporter of the Year" and a "Women Empowered through Export Platform" whilst leading the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CEDA).

In 2019 after eight years she left her position as head of (CEDA) to become the director of UNCTAD's International Trade and Commodities. She warned in November of that year concerning the lose-lose trade war that was emerging between the USA and China. It was damaging to all the consumers involved and it "compromises the stability of the global economy and future growth".

Publications include
 Accelerating Trade and Integration in the Caribbean: Policy Options for Sustained Growth, Job Creation, and Poverty Reduction, 2009, World Bank (co-author).