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TeHilla Maloney-Joseph is a Caribbean development statistician and data strategist whose work spans the public sector, private finance and regional youth advocacy. As Business Intelligence Lead for the ANSA McAL Group's banking sector in Trinidad and Tobago, she leads data strategy, governance and performance, drawing on five years of policy research at the Ministry of National Security. She represents YSTAT, CARICOM's youth advocacy programme on statistics, on the CARICOM Statistics Technical Working Group on Innovation, where she brings young people's perspectives into how the region's statistical system adopts new methods and tools. Her youth work includes leading monitoring and evaluation systems for the Me to We Mentorship Programme at the Volunteer Centre of Trinidad and Tobago, serving as a COP 2025 delegate for Caribbean youth, and moderating and hosting the Caribbean session at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum. A former Co-Chair of the Caribbean Development Bank's Future Leaders Network and a 2023 Commonwealth and Caribbean Youth Council 35 Under 35 honouree, she aspires to help Caribbean communities measure and author their own realities, and to see the region's evidence carry weight in Atlantic conversations on digital sovereignty, climate and development.

