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Mrs. Minna Israel is a former banker with over thirty years of corporate, commercial and retail banking experience. Mrs. Israel was the President & Country Head of RBC Royal Bank Jamaica for 4 years, 2008-2012. In January 2005, she was appointed the first female Country Head in Scotiabank International and spent 3 years as Managing Director of Scotiabank (Bahamas) Limited. She previously held the position of Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO of The Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited. Mrs Israel presently serves as a Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor on Resource Development, with focus on philanthropy. Prior to that, she held the position of Distinguished Business Fellow at The University of the West Indies, Mona School of Business & Management. Mrs. Israel holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the Western University, Canada; a BSc Degree in Management Studies from The UWI; and a Diploma in Business Administration specialising in Banking from the University of Technology. She was the first female to be elected President of the Jamaica Bankers’ Association and served for the period 2009 to 2011.