Elson Gaskin

Elson Gaskin (born September 9, 1967) is a Barbadian Attorney at Law and Central Banker and is the Bank Secretary and at present, the Acting Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados.
Background and Early life
Elson Gaskin was born at Bridgetown, Barbados on September 9, 1967. He received his formative education at Wesley Hall Primary School, Harrison College and the Barbados Community College. In 1987, he entered the Faculty of Law at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies to read for the Bachelor of Laws (LL. B) degree.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law University of the West Indies (UWI) in 1990 with a Bachelor of Laws degree with honours, the Hugh Wooding Law School with a Certificate of Legal Education in 1992 and the Bangor Business School with an MBA in Banking and Law (Distinction) in 2013. He was called to the Bar of Barbados in 1992, the Anguilla Bar in 1994 and the Bar of Saint Christopher and Nevis in 1995. He is also a Chartered Banker and is member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.
Professional life
In 1994, he joined the staff of Keithley Lake and Associates a leading Anguillian Law firm and was commended for playing a pivotal role in the firm's early development. In 1997, he joined the firm of Lake & Kentish and made an appearance before the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council in the seminal freedom of expression case of Benjamin v. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting All ER (D) 324.
In 2002 he relocated to Barbados and joined the Solicitor General's Chambers as a Principal Crown Counsel, attached to the litigation section. While there he appeared in many cases including the case of the "European Vision" and the leading Barbadian case of Boyce and Joseph v The Attorney General which dealt with the question of the imposition of the death penalty in Barbados.
From 2005 to 2009 he lectured in Business Law at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus and between 2008 and 2011, served as a Chairman of one of Barbados' Severance Payments Tribunals.
Prior to joining the staff of the Central Bank of Barbados in 2007, he was the General Legal Counsel of the Fair Trading Commission, Barbados' consumer protection, utility regulation and fair competition agency.
With the passage of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) by the United States Congress, Mr. Gaskin was requested to head a Task Force on FATCA implementation in Barbados. The task force published its report in 2013, which led to Barbados negotiating and entering into a Model 1 FATCA Inter-Governmental Agreement with the United States.
In 2015 he was recommended for judicial office as part of a project to modernize judicial techniques in Barbados.

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