Winsome Leslie

Dr. Winsome Leslie is currently President and CEO of DevSolutions Consulting, and an established international development specialist whose firm provides advisory and consulting services in micro and small business development to business intermediaries in the U.S., the Caribbean and frontier markets. She has more than 25 years of experience designing, implementing and supervising development projects in the Caribbean, primarily in the areas of entrepreneurial development and access to finance for micro and small businesses. The firm has successfully delivered MSME development assignments and solutions for national, regional and multinational clients, such as the Development Bank of Jamaica, the Caribbean Development Bank, the European Commission and the Inter-American Development Bank.. Dr. Leslie has served as the Economic Attaché at the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, D.C. and has held teaching positions at the American University and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She is currently the only Caribbean member of the Advisory Committee for the US Government-funded Inter-American Foundation, which focuses on community development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Leslie has received a number of awards, including the 2023 Women in Business Trailblazer award from the Center Club in Baltimore, MD, and the prestigious Antonio Ortiz Mena award from the Inter-American Development Bank for her stellar contribution to the Bank’s work in the Caribbean in 2012. Dr. Leslie has Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in International Relations from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Economics from Barnard College.