Diane Edwards

Director at Professional Services unit at Mona School of Business & Management

Diane M. Edwards, MBA leads the Professional Services Unit/MSBM Consulting, the consulting and executive education arm of the Mona School of Business & Management (MSBM). Her focus will be to grow the consultancy into an internationally recognised partner for business in management consulting and executive education.

Ms. Edwards has joined MSBM from a 9-year career as President of JAMPRO, Jamaica’s investment and export promotion agency, where she and her team led the expansion of the BPO sector, attracted investment in 12,000 new hotel rooms and were instrumental in driving the government’s Business Environment Reform Agenda.

During her tenure, she managed and supervised a number of internationally and locally funded projects, such as: Global Services Sector project to upskill BPO agents; the award winning Export Max programme to deliver export-oriented services to Small and Medium Sized companies; Boosting Innovation & Growth Entrepreneurship Eco-Systems; National Investment Policy and the National Business Portal.

In 2021 she won a Gold award as “Business Development Executive of the Year” and Silver in the “Woman of the Year in Sales” category in the Stevie International Business Awards.

From 2003 to 2013, Ms. Edwards led the expansion of J. Wray & Nephew UK Ltd. as General Manager and Director, achieving profitability and building the company’s turnover by 77% over 10 years.

Ms. Edwards holds an MBA from New York’s Pace University, a Masters in International Relations from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a BA (Hons) in French, Spanish and German from the University of the West Indies (UWI).