Roodal Moonilal

The Honourable Roodal Moonilal
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Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Trinidad and Tobago
Incumbent
Assumed office May 24, 2010
Constituency	Oropouche East
Leader of Government Business House of Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago
Incumbent
Assumed office May 24, 2010
Deputy Political Leader United National Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office March 24, 2012
Personal details
Born	(1966-12-02) 2 December 1966 Trinidad and Tobago
Political party	United National Congress
Spouse	Natasha Moonilal
Occupation	Lawyer Politician

Dr. Roodal Moonilal (born December 2, 1966) is the Minister of Housing and Urban Development of Trinidad and Tobago and the Leader of Government Business in the Lower House of Parliament from 2010 to present. Moonilal has been the Member of Parliament for Oropouche East since 2010, and served as the Member of Parliament for Oropouche from 2002–2007.

Education and early career

Moonilal has a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours in Government from the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, an LLB degree in law from the University of London., a Master of Arts Degree in Labour and Development, which he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1991/1992, and a Ph.D. in Development Studies during 1995 to 1998 from the Government of the Netherlands Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. There he specialized in Industrialization, Labour Relations and Urban Employment and his thesis received the first cum laude distinction in the history of the Ph.D. program at the Institute of Social Studies.

He was a part-time tutor in Politics at UWI (1988–91, 1993–94, 1996), and was a Teaching and Research Assistant (TRA) Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (1995, 1997–98). He was also Advisor to ATS/GWTU (1999), lectured part-time at UWI, St. Augustine (1999-2000) and was Lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies, Holland (May–June 2000). In 1999, he was Director, Policy Monitoring Unit, Office of the Prime Minister.

Moonilal lectured in the areas of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (HRM) at the UWI, St. Augustine and worked as an Industrial Relations consultant in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean.

Moonilal is married to Natasha Moonilal (formerly Chadeesingh).

Trade union and political activist

Moonilal worked as Head of the Department of Education, Research and Training, All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union (1989–91, 1993–95) and was rehired in an advisory capacity in 1999, during which time he also served as Industrial Relations Consultant and Advisor to the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA), Port-of-Spain (1999-2000).

External links

• Executive Profile of Dr. Moonilal