Pat Phillip-Bassett is the Deputy Director, Corporate Governance and Communications at the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Her responsibilities include development and implementation of the organisation’s corporate governance framework and related policies, as well as strategic planning and execution of the Authority’s corporate communications programmes.
Prior to joining the Authority in 2005, Ms. Phillip-Bassett’s career included providing international business writing and marketing consulting services to a group of Bermuda-based insurance and financial services firms, as well as public sector clients. She is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Bermuda International Business Association, where she led initiatives to promote Bermuda as a financial centre globally. Prior to that appointment she was the Director of Marketing at Bermuda corporate law firm Appleby, and Assistant Director of Tourism at the Bermuda Department of Tourism, with responsibility for Marketing. Her professional experience prior to moving to Bermuda in 1992 covered strategic planning and communications roles within the telecommunications industry in London and the Caribbean region.
Ms. Phillip-Bassett is a graduate of the Dorset Institute of Higher Education in the UK and holds a BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies; she also has professional qualifications from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. She has served on the executive and as a committee member of several financial services industry-related boards in Bermuda, currently including the Bermuda Insurance Development Council.
