Semone Armorgan

Semone Armorgan is an independent Social and Economic Researcher. Throughout her career, she continuously strives to positively contribute to business results, utilizing tools such as effective organisation and prioritisation when achieving key organisational projects.

A student at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, at the undergraduate level, her foundations in Economics nurtured her interest in the areas of Social Economics, Urban Economics and Econometrics. Her fondness for data and its relation to societal outcomes were applied through the accounting activities of small businesses as well as developing infrastructural monitoring and evaluation techniques at a nationally during the formative stages of her career.

As a graduate student pursuing an MSc. Development Statistics, her specialization in survey design and analysis has enhanced her critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Her resilience and results orientation abilities serve to support her research interests and continued efforts in aspects of Sustainable Development for Trinidad & Tobago, and the Caribbean.

To date, some of her contributions include, research attributed to the development of Trinidad and Tobago’s Comprehensive Wealth Index, more specifically the Natural Capital Index. In addition, she has processed and analysed data, reporting on Migration and Climate Displacement for Trinidad and Tobago. She was also a recent Queen Elizabeth Scholar (2024) at Mc Gill University and is a current affiliate of the McGill Geography Laboratory, where she continues to pursue research on Energy Poverty within the Caribbean region.