Donald Charles was a banker for a significant portion of his professional life, including commercial and development banking. Additionally, Donald headed a firm that provided consulting services in Management, Marketing, Financial Management, Project Management, Hotel Development as well as Events Production, Artist & Sports Management and Customer Service Training.
Donald is a participant in the Harvard Business School Executive Education Alumni Program and, to date, has completed certificate programs in Finance for Senior Executives, Marketing for Senior Executives, Private Equity and Venture Capital and Corporate Restructuring, Mergers, and Acquisitions.
He also has certificates in Building Effective Financial Markets and Project Management. Donald has completed the FCI Foundation Course on Domestic and International Factoring.
Former Chairman – Association of Development Banks of the Eastern Caribbean, whose members include Anguilla Development Board, Antigua & Barbuda Development Bank, Development Bank of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica Agricultural Industrial and Development Bank, Grenada Development Bank and St. Lucia Development Bank: Affiliated members – Development Bank of Jamaica and Belize Development Finance Corporation.
Former Vice-Chairman – Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) Technical Committee for the Financing and Development of Tourism.
Former National Coordinator, Eastern Caribbean – ALIDE.
Member of Planning Committee for World Federation of Development Finance Institutions’ Seminar held in Washington, D.C in November 2010.
Former Vice-President of Antigua and Barbuda Bankers Association.
Former General Manager Antigua and Barbuda Development Bank.
Former General Manager Bank of Antigua.