Director/Registrar General of the Antigua & Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS), the Maritime Administration of Antigua and Barbuda
Ambassador Dwight C.R. Gardiner OBE has served as the Director/Registrar General of the Antigua & Barbuda Department of Marine Services and Merchant Shipping (ADOMS), the Maritime Administration of Antigua and Barbuda, since 2009.
He is also Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Antigua and Barbuda with special representative responsibility for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Seabed Authority (ISA).
Ambassador Gardiner is an Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public who also holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Technology majoring in Marine Technology with Honours from the Florida Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom, and a Master of Science in Maritime Safety Administration (Nautical) from the WMU. He is a current member of the Board of Governors of the WMU and was accorded the award of Most Outstanding Alumnus of WMU in 2013.
Ambassador Gardiner has been involved in the maritime sector of Antigua & Barbuda and the Caribbean region for over 35 years. His experience includes various senior positions in the Antigua & Barbuda maritime administration, as well as being a Commissioner of the Antigua & Barbuda Port Authority, Chair of the National Ocean Governance Committee, Chair of the National Maritime Boundaries Delimitation Committee, and former Chair of the Caribbean MOU on Port State Control.