Andrea Dempster-Chung

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Kingston Creative

Andrea is the cofounder and Executive Director of Kingston Creative, a nonprofit organisation seeking to transform Downtown Kingston through Art and Culture.  She has held senior management roles in the Government of Jamaica, Digicel and Gracekennedy and is also the founder of Bookophilia, a bookstore that promotes Caribbean literature.  She has served on the boards of Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), The National Land Agency (NLA) and the Public Health Committee.  She recently managed the Arts portfolio for the British Council where she developed strategy and implemented key projects in film, literature and visual art, in order to drive the creative economy in Jamaica. Andrea studied Art and Finance at the Sotheby’s School of Art in London, Finance at the Stanford School of Business in California and is certified in Project Management.  She holds a Master of Science in Structural Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.