Eliud Williams

Eliud Thaddeus Williams (born 21 August 1948) is a Dominican politician who served as seventh President of Dominica from 2012 to 2013.

Life and career Eliud Williams was born in 1948 in Dominica. After college he entered politics.

He was appointed as Commissioner of Cooperatives from 1985 to 1987. He entered the civil service and had several positions. He obtained a master's degree in Business Administration at the University of the West Indies in 1995.

He was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health and Social Security from 1992 to 1996, then to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment until 2000. In the civil service, he was chairman of the government's Rural Enterprise project from 1996 to 2000.

In 2004, he became Director General of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority, a position which he held until 2008.

Eliud has a brother Signorette Joseph Williams, who migrated to St. Croix USVI in the late 1960s before moving to the United States in 1980.