Gabriella Fraser

Founding Principal & Managing Director

Gabriella Fraser is an independent consultant and the Founding Principal & Managing Director of the Vivian Group Ltd.

An economist by profession, Gabriella has enjoyed a career that has afforded her extensive experience in socio-economic analysis, policy, and planning, while also establishing a professional niche in institutional strengthening, organisational capacity development and corporate communications.

CURRENT WORK

Through The Vivian Group Ltd, she provides strategic, analytical and management services in areas of institutional strengthening and capacity building, and research services including market research and policy-relevant socioeconomic research, to a client base largely comprising not-for-profit organisations and publicly funded initiatives. Many of these initiatives, which tend to serve development objectives at community and national levels, are funded by multilateral development finance institutions, notably the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Her career has spanned key sectors of the Bahamian economy, including executive and senior management positions in higher education and tourism sectors; and the financial services and electronic communications sectors where she served in regulatory entities.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Gabriella holds a Master of Arts degree in Economic Development and Policy Analysis from the University of Nottingham, UK; a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath, UK; a Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Economics from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK; a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Finance from Barry University, US; and an Associate of Arts degree in Pure and Applied Mathematics from the former College, now University of The Bahamas.

Her education and training also includes certificate programmes by the London School of Economics, and courses by the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) IMF Institute, The Commonwealth Secretariat, The Centre for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), The Bank of England and the Public Utility Research Center (PURC).