Gilbert N. Morris
Ambassador Professor Gilbert Morris is a leading thinker on the global financial system and a specialist in Econometrics and Methodologies of Development. Among his other roles, Amb. Morris is National Public Reader of the Bahamas and Ambassador-at-Large and Scholar-in- Residence at the Bahamas Foreign Services Institute (BFSI).
Professor Morris taught at George Mason University from 1994-2001; where he taught in four faculties of the university and was awarded the “Technology-Across-The-Curriculum Prize.” He was Lecturer on “The History of Revolutions: Political, Social, Scientific and Technological”, for the Smithsonian Associates at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC and was a member of the Mid-Atlantic Scholars Association, where he presented on “The Quotidian Psychology and Neuroscience of Race” at Princeton University. Professor Morris also lectured on “Pedagogical Neuroscience” at the Alain Locke Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
As a methodologist and systems theorist, Professor Morris has gained prominence as an Economist and a social scientist; applying his ideas in operational contexts. He’s become one of the world’s leading thinkers on Financial Centres and gained global prominence as Advisor to Pierre Darier in his capacity as Chairman of the Swiss Private Bankers Association (SPBA), advising on technological developments in the global financial system.
In this context, in 2003, Morris was retained by CITIC/ StarCapital to complete the largest ever study on “Multimodal Distributional Centres in the Caribbean Basin for the facilitation of China-Caribbean Trade” for Madam Wu, then the Vice Premier of China. Morris also served as Chairman of the Turks and Caicos National Investment Agency (then TC Invest, now INVEST TC) in 2009. He served as Senior Economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance of Turks and Caicos Islands (2006-2009), where he advised on five national Budgets with National Economist and PS of Finance, Delton Jones.
Returning to the Private Sector in 2012, Morris was selected as Chairman of the TCI Resorts Economic Council (TCREC), representing the 14 largest developers in TCI, negotiating Development Agreements, Tax models and immigration concessions and In 2009, he was appointed Special Envoy from the Office of the Premier to the All Party Committee of the House of Lords, UK. In 2014, Morris was appointed Senior Strategist by TCI Premier The Hon. Dr Rufus Ewing, MP, to the TCI-Canada Working Group with the responsibility of drafting a TCI- Canada Friendship Treaty. Morris also served for 18 years as private economic Advisor to The Hon. Gordon “Butch” Stewart in his capacity as Chairman of SANDALS Corp.
Currently, Professor Morris focuses his research on Cognitive Neuropsychology with emphasis on incentives, rationality and sense-making in political, economic and social systems…with further concentrations on the impacts of scaled technologies.
Morris studied at Harvard University Extension School, Mansfield College, Oxford University (IBIS), Oxford Brooks University, Cadmus Law College, The London School of Economics and the University of London. His concentrations were in Law, Social Science and Technology, Econometrics, Logic and Scientific Methodologies and Neuroscience.
Morris has written widely on subjects in his areas of work, including a New York Times bestseller: “Rescue America”, which applied paediatric neuroscience to child-development. He’s written dozens of articles on law and finance for the International Financial Centers’ Review Journal. Morris’s forthcoming book, “Friston’s Ontology,” discusses the theories of the world’s leading Neuroscientist Professor Karl Friston, and the application of neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence driven social systems.