Editing Timothy Harris

{{Short description|Former Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
{{for multi|the historian of 17th-century Britain|Timothy J. G. Harris|the American author|Timothy Harris (writer)|other people|Timothy Harris (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
|name             = Timothy Harris
|image            = Timothy Harris 2019.jpg
|caption          = Harris in 2019
|office           = 3rd [[Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis]]
|monarch          = [[Elizabeth II]]
|governor-general = [[Edmund Wickham Lawrence|Edmund Lawrence]]<br />[[Tapley Seaton]]
|term_start       = 18 February 2015
|term_end         = 6 August 2022
|deputy = [[Shawn Richards]] (2015–2022)<br/>[[Eugene Alistair Hamilton]] (2022)<ref>{{cite web |title=SKNVibes {{!}} PM Harris fires six Government Ministers |url=https://www.sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.cfm/118955 |website=www.sknvibes.com}}</ref>
|predecessor      = [[Denzil Douglas]]
|successor        = [[Terrance Drew]]
|office1             = [[Minister of Finance of Saint Kitts and Nevis|Minister of Finance]]
|primeminister1      = [[Denzil Douglas]]
|term_start1         = November 2008
|term_end1           = February 2010
|predecessor1        = [[Denzil Douglas]]
|successor1          = [[Denzil Douglas]]
|term_start2         = February 2015
|term_end2           = August 2022
|predecessor2        = [[Denzil Douglas]]
|successor2          = [[Terrance Drew]]
|office3          = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Saint Kitts and Nevis)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
|primeminister3   = [[Denzil Douglas]]
|term_start3      = 10 August 2001
|term_end3        = 25 January 2008
|predecessor3     = [[Sam Condor]]
|successor3       = Denzil Douglas
|office4            = [[National Assembly (Saint Kitts and Nevis)|Member of Parliament]] 
|term_start4    = 1995
|term_end4     =
|predecessor4 = 
|successor4    =
|constituency4 = [[Saint Kitts|Saint Christopher #7]]
|birth_name       = Timothy Sylvester Harris
|birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1964|12|6|df=y}}<ref name="oecd">{{cite news|url=https://oecsbusinessfocus.com/a-profile-of-dr-timothy-sylvester-harris-prime-minister-st-kitts-and-nevis/ |title=A Profile of Dr Timothy Sylvester Harris Prime Minister - St Kitts and Nevis |website=OECS Business Focus|access-date=12 May 2021}}</ref>
|birth_place      = {{nowrap|[[Tabernacle, Saint Kitts and Nevis|Tabernacle]], <br> [[Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla]]}}
|death_date       = 
|death_place      = 
|party            = [[Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party|Labour Party]] {{small|(Before 2013)}}<br />[[People's Labour Party (Saint Kitts and Nevis)|People's Labour Party]]<br />{{small|(2013–present)}}
|otherparty       = [[Team Unity (Saint Kitts and Nevis)|Team Unity]] {{small|(2013–present)}}
|alma_mater       = [[University of the West Indies at Cave Hill]]<br />[[University of the West Indies|University of the West Indies at St. Augustine]]<br />[[McGill University]]<br />[[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]]<br />[[Université du Québec à Montréal|University of Quebec at Montreal]]<br />[[Université de Montréal|University of Montreal]]
}}
'''Timothy Sylvester Harris''' (born 6 December 1964)<ref name="oecd"/> is a Saint Kittitian and Nevisian politician, who served as the third [[prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis]] from 2015 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 August 2001 to 25 January 2008, as [[Minister of Finance of Saint Kitts and Nevis|Minister of Finance]] from 2008 to 2010,<ref>{{cite web |title=St. Kitts and Nevis: Gabinete / Cabinet |url=https://pdba.georgetown.edu/Executive/Kitts/cabinet.html |website=pdba.georgetown.edu}}</ref> and as Senior Minister and Minister for Agriculture from 2010 to 2013.

== Life and career==
Harris grew up in the village of [[Tabernacle, Saint Kitts and Nevis|Tabernacle]], [[Saint Kitts]].<ref name="oecd"/> He attended the Cayon High School and Basseterre High School before going to six university campuses, two in the Caribbean and four in Canada. In 1988, Harris graduated from the [[University of the West Indies at Cave Hill]] with a B.Sc. degree with a First Class Honours in Accounting, the only graduate of the B.Sc. Accounting programme to obtain this distinction. He also received the Victor Crooke Prize for Best Accounting Student. He returned home and worked for two years at managerial level with S. L. Horsfords and Co Ltd.<ref name="oecd"/>

In 1990–92 he pursued his M.Sc. degree in accounting at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine in [[Trinidad and Tobago]]. He graduated top of the class with an M.Sc. degree with a Distinction.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2018-10-10|title=University of the West Indies honours two Federation officials|url=https://www.thestkittsnevisobserver.com/university-of-the-west-indies-honours-two-federation-officials/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-19|website=[[The St. Kitts-Nevis Observer]]|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2001 Harris successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation at [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]] in Montreal, Canada. The doctoral programme is a joint Ph.D. programme involving [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]], [[McGill University|McGill]] and two [[francophone]] universities: H.E.C. (affiliated to [[Université de Montréal]]) and [[Université du Québec à Montréal|UQAM]]. Harris holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in administration majoring in accounting.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Harris|first=Timothy|title=Exploring the potentialities of value-for-money audit: an investigation of its impact on management controls, accountability, performance, and a test of legitimacy theory|publisher=[[John Molson School of Business]], Concordia University|year=2001|isbn=|location=Montreal|pages=|type=PhD Thesis|oclc=896681248}}</ref>

Harris participated in elective politics in 1993 and was elected as a Member of Parliament on the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party ticket in parliamentary elections held in 1995, 2000, 2004, and 2010. He held various cabinet posts, including Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Housing, Minister of Education, Labour and Social Security, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Industry and Commerce.<ref name="oecd"/> He has published several works and received several awards, including the St. Kitts Youth Council Award for Excellence in Education, the FESTAB Community Award for outstanding contribution to FESTAB and a certificate for outstanding contribution to the Cayon High School.<ref name="oecd"/>

In 2013 Prime Minister [[Denzil Douglas]] fired Harris from the cabinet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2013-01-25|title=Prime Minister revokes appointment of Senior Minister|url=http://www.cuopm.com/?p=5781|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223201208/http://www.cuopm.com/?p=5781|archive-date=2014-02-23|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Office of the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis}}</ref> Harris established the [[People's Labour Party (Saint Kitts and Nevis)|People's Labour Party]] (PLP) later in the year. In the buildup to the [[2015 Saint Kitts and Nevis general election|2015 general elections]], the PLP formed the Team Unity alliance with the [[People's Action Movement]] and the [[Concerned Citizens' Movement]]. The alliance won the elections, and although the PLP won only one seat, Harris became the third Prime Minister of independent St. Kitts and Nevis on 16 February. He succeeded the incumbent, Denzil Douglas, who served a historic near 20-year tenure.

==Honors==
* {{flag|Taiwan}}:
**[[File:TWN Order of Propitious Clouds 1Class BAR.svg|70px]] Special Grand Cordon of the [[Order of Propitious Clouds]] (2019)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wen |first1=Yu-chen |last2=Chung |first2=Kuei-hsiang |title=President Tsai decorates St. Christopher and Nevis prime minister |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201904160012.aspx |access-date=16 April 2019 |agency=Central News Agency |date=16 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Su |first1=Yung-yao |last2=Chung |first2=Jake |title=Saint Kitts prime minister in Taipei to improve ties |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2019/04/17/2003713542 |access-date=16 April 2019 |work=Taipei Times |date=16 April 2019}}</ref><ref name="officeofthepresident">{{cite web|url=https://english.president.gov.tw/Page/103|title=Decorations of the Republic of China (Taiwan)|access-date=4 April 2020|website=Office of the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan)|quote=2019-4-16 St. Christopher and Nevis Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon Prime Minister Timothy Sylvester Harris}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.gov.kn St. Kitts & Nevis] - Government of St. Kitts and Nevis official website
* [https://www.un.org/webcast/ga/61/pdfs/saintkittsandnevis-e.pdf United Nations] - Permanent Mission of St. Kitts and Nevis to the United Nations Statement by His Excellency Dr. Timothy Harris

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