Pauline Allen-Dean

Pauline Allen-Dean is a former banker in The Bahamas. She was the first woman to become manager of a commercial bank and the first woman to serve as managing director of a commercial bank.

Life

Born Pauline Allen, she completed a diploma in banking from the Institute of Bankers in London in 1973. In 1983, she was named a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. She was elected president of the Bahamas Institute of Bankers in 1998.

Allen-Dean also served as deputy president of the Bahamas Red Cross society. She was also founding president of the Consumer Protection Association in The Bahamas and of the Women Against [...] association. For a time, she contributed a column "One Woman's Point of View" to the Nassau Guardian. In December 2011, she was named to the Public Service Commission of The Bahamas.

Pauline-Allen helped establish a 200-home community development with her brother Algernon Allen, a former member of the Bahamian cabinet.