Dr Nicole A. Pierce

Biography

 Dr Nicole A. Pierce (BA, JD, MBA, LLM, PhD) is an Attorney-at-Law (Jamaica), academic, and legal and policy consultant specialising in insolvency law reform, corporate regulation, and commercial law harmonisation in small island developing states (SIDS). She is currently Deputy Director for Global Projects at the Institute of Small and Micro States (ISMS) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL).

At Goldsmiths, University of London, she teaches on various areas of private law. Her career includes academic posts as Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London's Centre for Commercial Law Studies, and Associate Lecturer at Northumbria University.

Before entering academia in the UK, Dr Pierce practised law in the Commonwealth Caribbean and held senior advisory roles in the Government of Jamaica. As Legal Counsel to the Consumer Affairs Commission, she established the region's first Consumer Protection Secretariat and Tribunal. She contributed to major legislative reforms, including the Credit Reporting Act 2010, the Secured Interests in Personal Property Act 2013, and the Insolvency Act 2014.

Regionally, she has served as Lead Consultant to the CARICOM Secretariat on the CARICOM Commercial Law Harmonisation Project, developing the Model Insolvency Bill, Model Company Law, and Model Partnership Law for 14 member states, and guiding national implementation. She also advised the International Finance Corporation on Jamaica's secured transactions and collateral registry framework.

Her current work includes leading the development of Silver Economy policy projects for the Caribbean region, as well as researching and developing a financial consumer protection legislative framework suitable for small islands in this region. She is a Contributing Editor to the International Insolvency Review, a member of INSOL International, and has undertaken consultancy on the OECS Regional Integration Framework Project.