From Toron­to to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Dr An­drew Seep­er­sad is re­turn­ing with more than a doc­tor­ate. He is com­ing back with a sharp­ened frame­work for de­ci­sion-mak­ing, a deep­er ad­vi­so­ry lens, and a clear ar­gu­ment that in­no­va­tion in this coun­try must move be­yond talk and in­to dis­ci­plined ex­e­cu­tion.

Seep­er­sad com­plet­ed his doc­tor­ate while based in Toron­to, un­der­tak­ing the pro­gramme de­liv­ered by the Paris School of Busi­ness. The ex­pe­ri­ence, he said, re­flect­ed the kind of glob­al­ly con­nect­ed, high-de­mand en­vi­ron­ment that in­creas­ing­ly de­fines mod­ern lead­er­ship.

“I did the pro­gramme while liv­ing and work­ing in Toron­to,” he said. “That con­text mat­ters, be­cause you are ex­posed to fast-mov­ing, com­plex en­vi­ron­ments where de­ci­sions have to be made with in­com­plete in­for­ma­tion.”