Advisory and Diplomacy
In 2009, Morris was appointed Special Advisor and Envoy for the Premier, the Hon. Galmo Williams for whom Morris undertook two Diplomacy missions to London where he called on the House of Lords, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, during the Constitutional Crisis of 2009 in Turks and Caicos, prior to the Suspension of the 2006 Constitution. (The mission also called on the Liberal Democrats and William Hague, now Foreign Minister in the UK Government.)
More recently, in 2009, Morris served as Chairman of TC Invest - the Turks and Caicos National Investment Agency - where he developed a comprehensive reform agenda both for the agency and for the Turks and Caicos Economy, drafting legislation also for a Reserve Bank. In March 2009, in an interview with WIV Channel 4 in Turks and Caicos. Morris said, "In the truest sense, we do not have an economy. What we have is a windfall system. We do not have a transactional nexus of self-generating economic activity. As such, it is necessary to re-design the economy and that is what our reforms are intended to do". Morris produced hundreds of much sought after papers on financial service centre design and development, regulatory arbitrage and the global financial system
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