Press Releases 2008

Jamaican Fulbright Student excels at U.S. University

The United States Embassy in Kingston is pleased to announce that Damion McIntosh, a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Graduate Student Scholarship in 2006, has been selected by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) as the Most Outstanding MBA Student for the academic year 2007/2008.

Mr. McIntosh accepted his award at SIUC’s annual Honours Day Ceremony held at the university recently. He won from a field of hundreds of distinguished scholars enrolled at the SIUC’s School of Business.

Damion thanked the U.S. Embassy for selecting him for the Fulbright Scholarship in 2006, and said that studying at SIUC is an “amazing opportunity” and an “enriching experience.”

The top student completed his MBA in one year instead of the normal two years, and because Damion excelled in his studies, the school accepted him into SIUC’s Ph.D. program in Business Administration specializing in Finance.   SIUC has also waived his tuition for the doctoral program and given him an assistantship for the duration of his studies that is renewable annually for up to three years. 

On completion of his doctoral studies in 2010, Damion plans to return to his substantive post of Assistant Director in the Financial Institutions Supervisory Division at the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), where he hopes to use his new skills to target his area of specialization, with the hope of contributing a new perspective and approach to his work.