CDB appoints Gillian Charles-Gollop to VP Corporate Services

Published on May 4, 2026

The Caribbean Development Bank has appointed finance executive Mrs. Gillian CharlesGollop, a Saint Lucian, as Vice President, Corporate Services, effective May 1, 2026.

Most recently, Mrs. Charles-Gollop served as Executive Director, Corporate Banking and Sustainable Finance at CIBC Caribbean, where she provided regional leadership and strategic oversight of a corporate and sovereign client credit portfolio exceeding US$6 billion and advanced the bank’s regional sustainable finance agenda.

Her career includes leading complex financing, mergers and acquisitions advisory mandates, capital markets and debt conversion transactions, and the financing of major infrastructure, utilities, renewable energy, and telecommunications projects across the Caribbean.

Mrs. Charles-Gollop holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Leicester and is an Associate of the Institute of Canadian Bankers. Her experience is complemented by formal governance accreditation through the Chartered Governance Institute of Canada and specialist certification in sustainability and climate risk from the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

She is also a certified change management practitioner and a graduate of CIBC Caribbean’s Senior Leadership Program.