Mr. A. Joel Walton

A. Joel Walton is the Chief Executive Officer of the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands and Director of the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry. Prior to this, Mr. Walton served in the Cayman Islands Public Service, which he joined in 1983. He held several posts, including that of Deputy Financial Secretary in the Portfolio of Finance and Economics for 11 years until May 2004.

During this time, he had immediate policy level responsibility for the Financial Services Supervision Department and the Cayman Islands Currency Board, which fell under the Portfolio of Finance and Economics and which were the forerunners to the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA). Later, CIMA and the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange also formed part of this portfolio along with other areas including the General Registry and Treasury departments, the Economics and Statistics Office, and the Budget and Management Unit.

Mr. Walton has also held appointments on a number of boards and committees in the public and private sectors. These include: chairman of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority Board and the Company Sector Consultative Committee; deputy chairman of the Cayman Islands Public Service Pensions Board and the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange Authority, and board member of Caribbean Utilities Company Ltd., Caribbean Development Bank, and the Agricultural and Industrial Development Board (now the Cayman Islands Development Bank). He was also a representative of the Portfolio of Finance and Economics on the Cayman Islands Private Sector Consultative Committee.

In 1983, Mr. Walton obtained a Bachelor of Administration (Honours) degree with a specialisation in finance from Brock University, Canada, and an MBA in 1988 with a concentration in finance and strategic planning from the University of Windsor, Canada. Mr. Walton is currently Chairman of the Maritime Sector Consultative Committee and Cayman Turtle Farm Board, and also Deputy Chairman of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority Board.