Ralph Everard Gonsalves is serving his fourth term as Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines after winning the elections in 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2015. Dr. Gonsalves became the Deputy Political Leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP) in 1994. The ULP, a merger of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Labour Party and the Movement for National Unity (MNU), won the St Vincent and the Grenadines General Elections held on 28 March 2001. Concurrently while pursuing his political career and prior to his becoming the Prime Minister, Dr. Gonsalves practiced law before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in a wide range of matters. Dr. Gonsalves was educated in St Vincent and the Grenadines. He later completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics at the University of the West Indies. In 1971, he obtained a Masters in Government from the University of the West Indies. In 1974 and 1981 he obtained a Ph.D. in Government and a Degree of Utter Barrister at University of Manchester, England and Gray’s Inn, London, respectively. Dr. Gonsalves has researched, written and published extensively on a range of matters touching upon the Caribbean, African, trade unionism, comparative political economy, and developmental issues generally. Among his two latest publications are History and the Future: A Caribbean Perspective, The Politics of Our Caribbean Civilisation – Essays and Speeches, The Making of the Comrade: The Political Journey of Ralph Gonsalves and Diary of a Prime Minister: Ten Days Among Benedictine Monks. He was born on 8 August 1946 in Colonarie, St Vincent, and the Grenadines.