Prof. Paloma Mohamed is the eleventh Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana. She is a full Professor of behavior and communications noted as a futurist scholar for her work on change in both humans and human systems. She is the first woman to lead the University in its 58 year history. She is also the first woman to be appointed Vice Chancellor at any University in the Anglo-phone Caribbean. Prof Mohamed had led the University of Guyana’s Transitional Management Committee as its 2nd Chair since Aug 2019. She has also been Deputy Vice Chancellor, Philanthropy, Alumni and Civic Engagement known as PACE, a department which she founded in 2016.

UG’s eleventh Vice Chancellor, has worked on several multi-million dollar multi-university research projects and has been highly successful in raising over US$50 million in less than 5 years for UG, having developed specialties in strategic Energy issues, complex analysis and high level negotiation. Prof. Paloma Mohamed been awarded two Presidential Medals in 2012 and in 2015 as well as A City of New York Award for Culture in 2013, 1n 2014 she was named by the US embassy in Guyana amongst the top 5 most influential women in the country. In 2015, she became the first woman Caribbean Laureate for Excellence in Arts and Letters, considered the nobel prize of the Caribbean.

Prof. Mohamed has authored over 20 books, and produced 15 films. Amongst many other regional and international bodies, she is a member of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and also an Executive Board and a member of CARICOM’s Council for Social and Human Development (COSHoD). She is a beloved teacher and humanist who has been variously referred to as a servant leader and a Titanium butterfly.