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Welcome to the Online Home of Dana Lewis-Ambrose

We have created a new gateway to Dana Lewis-Ambrose, her research and her contributions to Politics, the Economy and Society. Connect easily with Dana’s Research, Blog, Multimedia Resources, Commentaries and more.

Mrs. Ambrose holds a B.Sc. Degree in Economics and Accounting and a M.Sc. Degree in  Natural Resource Management from the University of the West Indies (UWI)  received in October, 1999 and 2002, respectively. Mrs. Ambrose also holds  a  Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration from the Heriot Watt  University and is a doctoral student specialising in financial management with  the same institution. Additionally, she has completed a graduate diploma in Instructional Design from the University of the West Indies, Open Campus. Finally, Mrs. Ambrose is  certified to manage and facilitate online instruction by the Commonwealth of Learning in conjunction with the University of the West Indies, Open Campus.

She has been involved in education, since 1999, in various capacities (teaching, instructional design, student advising and assessment) in Barbados and the Virgin Islands. Additionally, Mrs. Ambrose has presented  academic papers at international conferences across the globe, including: Canada; Taiwan; the Virgin Islands; South Korea; Barbados; Florida; San Juan and Denmark. She has also published research in the areas of environmental economics, environmental accounting, globalisation, small businesses,regional economics and integration and agriculture.

She contributes to the VI Standpoint Newspaper column entitled, Politics and the Economy”. Her other academic interests are within the areas  of global financial management, regional economics and integration, small business, and small islands’ studies.

Dana  Lewis-Ambrose is the proud mother of D’André and Daniella Ambrose and wife of Derick E. Ambrose. She also serves as a Lay Minister at the St. George's Episcopal (Anglican) Church in the Virgin Islands. In her words, “God is indeed the cornerstone of my life and it is my  intention to use the gifts that he has given me for the building up of his  kingdom”.

Follow Dana Lewis-Ambrose at Twitter.com/dlambrose or Facebook.com/Dana-Lewis-Ambrose or blog with her at www.dlambrose.org/blog/.

Latest Publication Notices

This website is pleased to announce the online publication of the research paper entitled, "Price Control in the Virgin Islands: The Paradox of its Limited Existence".  The author would like to thank referees for insightful comments. This paper was originally presented at the UWI Country Conference from 23 - 24 October, 2007 hosted by the University of the West Indies, British Virgin Islands Distance Education Centre, the Virgin Islands.

This research is only available on this website and was published in September, 2011. The author, Dana Lewis-Ambrose can be contacted via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

View the full paper here.

In addition, the paper entitled, "The Relevance of CARICOM's Existence to the Virgin Islands in the Context of Globalisation", was printed in the December 2011 issue of the Chinese Business Review, which is published by David Publishing Company. The full article is available at www.davidpublishing.org. The abstract can be found on this website under the section referred to as Academic Publications.