Cheryl-Ann Lister OBE

Senior Financial & Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Government of Bermuda

Session: Fiscal Horizons: Exploring the Effect of Corporate Income Tax in Bermuda

Cheryl-Ann Lister is the Senior Financial and Economic Adviser within the Ministry of Finance of Bermuda Government.  In this role, Mrs. Lister provides strategic financial and economic advice on the operations of the Ministry of Finance which oversees the economy of Bermuda and provides a framework for the Bermuda Government’s fiscal and financial management.

Mrs. Lister currently chairs Bermuda’s National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLC) (since 2008). NAMLC is the body responsible, among other things, for providing recommendations and coordinating activities in relation to the development and implementation of an effective and compliant AML/CTF framework in Bermuda.

Mrs. Lister was previously the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bermuda Monetary Authority, Bermuda’s integrated financial services regulator. She attended university in Canada and completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Probability and Statistics at Queen’s University and a Master in business administration (Finance) degree at University of Toronto. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA); and for her contributions to sound and effective regulation, Mrs. Lister was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in 2008.

Mrs. Lister was a founding member and President of the Bermuda Society of Financial Analysts and served as a Governor for the Association of Investment Management and Research (now the CFA Institute), a global body that, among other things, promotes ethics and excellence in the investment profession. She also served as President of the International Society of Financial Analysts.