19 Facts About Keith Rowley

Keith Christopher Rowley was born on 24 October 1949 and is a Trinidadian politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago from 2015 to 2025.

Keith Rowley has led the People's National Movement since May 2010 and was Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015.

Keith Rowley has served as the Member of the House of Representatives for Diego Martin West since 1991.

Keith Rowley is a volcanologist by profession, holding a doctorate in geology, specializing in geochemistry.

Keith Rowley was a pupil of Bishop's High School in Tobago, and graduated from the University of the West Indies from where he graduated with a BSc.

Keith Rowley was general manager of state-owned National Quarries Company Limited as well.

Keith Rowley entered politics in 1981, where he unsuccessfully contested the Tobago West seat in the general election of that year.

Keith Rowley first served in Parliament as an Opposition Senator from 1987 to 1990.

Keith Rowley was then elected political leader of the People's National Movement as he was seen as the most capable to lead the party.

Keith Rowley served as the representative governor of Trinidad and Tobago for the Inter-American Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank.

Keith Rowley led the People's National Movement in the September 2015 general election, in which his party secured 23 out of 41 seats in the House of Representatives to form the government, defeating the previous People's Partnership coalition government.

On 9 September 2015, Keith Rowley was sworn in as Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago by President Anthony Carmona.

Keith Rowley becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and the second Tobago-born Prime Minister.

Keith Rowley again led the People's National Movement to victory in the 2020 Trinidad and Tobago general election for a second term in government under his premiership.

Keith Rowley deemed the action "legal and appropriate"; the Trinidadian police and coast guard opened an investigation of the event.

At the PNM convention in August 2024, Keith Rowley announced his support for the Caribbean Court of Justice to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as Trinidad and Tobago's final court of appeals.

Keith Rowley announced his government would legislate to remove Christopher Columbus's ships from the national coat of arms and replace them with the steelpan drum, which had been declared the official national music instrument a few months earlier.

Keith Rowley stated that the changes would "signal that we are on our way to removing the colonial vestiges that we have in our country".

Keith Rowley is married to attorney-at-law Sharon Rowley and has three children.