Elizabeth Carriere
Elizabeth Anne Carriere is a former British civil servant working in international development. From 2015 to 2018, she served as Governor of Montserrat.
Like her predecessor as governor, Adrian Davis, Carriere was a senior civil servant with the Department for International Development. She was posted to DFID Indonesia, and has subsequently served as head of DFID in Jamaica, Bangladesh, the Caribbean regional office, Rwanda, and South Sudan.
In March 2015, it was announced that Carriere would succeed Adrian Davis as Governor of Montserrat. She is the second female governor after Deborah Barnes-Jones. Carriere was sworn in at Government House on 5 August 2015. In August 2017, she announced that she would resign from her post as Governor and from the British civil service in early January 2018 to take up an international development position in Africa with a non-governmental organization. The British Government announced that she would be replaced by Andrew Pearce.
