Dr. The Honourable Roodal Moonilal Minister of Energy and Energy Industries, BSC., LLB, LEC, MA, PhD., MP
Dr. Roodal Moonilal is a prominent Trinidad and Tobago politician, academic, and labour relations specialist with a longstanding record of service in governance, industrial development, and regional cooperation. He currently serves as the Minister of Energy and Energy Industries in the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and is an elected Member of Parliament in the 13th Republic.
An accomplished scholar, Dr. Moonilal holds a BSc (Hons.) in Government from the University of the West Indies (UWI), an LLB from the University of London, and a Master of Arts in Labour and Development from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, the Netherlands. He completed his PhD in Development Studies at ISS, specializing in Industrialization, Labour Relations, and Urban Employment his dissertation earning the program’s first-ever cum laude distinction. Dr. Moonilal is also a graduate of the Hugh Wooding Law School, having obtained his Legal Education Certificate (LEC) in 2010.
Dr. Moonilal has contributed extensively to academic and policy discourse in the Caribbean, having served as a lecturer at UWI in areas such as Industrial Relations in the Public Sector and Compensation Management. He is a published author of multiple scholarly articles on labour relations, human resource management, trade union development, and public sector modernization.
Dr. Moonilal’s professional background includes leadership positions such as Director of the Policy Monitoring Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister and Head of Education, Research and Training at the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union. Internationally, he is affiliated as an Associate with Hagen Resources International (HRI), a management consultancy based in Geneva.
Dr. Moonilal’s political career spans over two decades, with previous Cabinet roles between 2010 and 2015 including Minister of Housing, Environment, Land and Marine Affairs, and Leader of Government Business in Parliament. During this period, he oversaw major developmental projects and played a pivotal role in parliamentary reform.