Paulette Simpson

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Paulette Simpson heads The Voice Media Group and is the strategic force behind the revitalising of Britain’s oldest black newspaper, which celebrated 40 years of publication in 2022.

She is also the country head for Jamaica National Bank and was integral to the historic formation of JN Bank UK Ltd, the first Caribbean-owned digital bank in the UK, launched in October 2020.

Born in England, Simpson’s grandmother thought it best for her granddaughter to be raised in Jamaica and so she returned there as a child. After returning to the UK, she studied at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where she earned a Bachelor of Art Degree in Business Studies (Finance and Marketing).

Today, Simpson is a major player in improving the lives of Jamaicans in the UK and Jamaica, bridging and maintaining Jamaica’s connection with its diaspora.

In May 2021, she announced a groundbreaking research collaboration between The Voice newspaper, the University of Cambridge and black-led consultancy I-Cubed.

The Black British Voices project will for the first time aim to understand how the British black community feels about key issues and cover the spectrum of experiences and views. The survey, which has attracted over 11,000 responses, will be released this year.

Subjects covered included an interrogation of the use of the term BAME. Simpson is also Deputy Chair of the Government’s Windrush Commemoration Committee and was awarded a CBE in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the Caribbean community in the UK.

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