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Peter Hardy

I left Kings College in 1967 to attend the University of Toronto on the advice of King's staff . My target was to obtain a Ph.D and apply to academia in the UK to become full time staff . Instead I completed a Master's and married a person from Bermuda I had met while gathering info on the economy of Guernsey to write my thesis for my King's degree. I moved to Bermuda to teach Geography in a high school. After 3 years I joined the Civil Service and became the Island's first Registrar of Companies. 3 years further on I became the Island's first Tax Commissioner, and held the post for 16 years. During my tenure of those posts I created the operational positions and the new offices for Government, developing procedures to support the growth of the economy, establishing links with key economies in the region, and representing the Government of the Island in significant matters with the UK Government, particularly the Anti-Money laundering principles with the FATF and the OECD in Paris. I established a good working relationship between the US Treasury , the IRS and the Government of Bermuda, as I moved to become Assistant Financial Secretary and then Financial Secretary , in charge of the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry held in its portfolio responsibility for - Budget, Customs, Tax Commissioner, Registrar of Companies, Statistics, Post Office, Accountant General. Economic Adviser.

I retired from Government service in 2000 and was awarded the OBE after retirement for services to Government and also to the Community having served the Synod of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Bermuda as Secretary and Chairman, as well as Bermuda's Commissioner to the United Church of Canada with which the Wesleyan Church had formed a liaison.

I was recruited to become the Group Corporate Secretary in 2000 for the Gibbons Group where I worked for a further 15 years, assisting the group to obtain its Bank licence and its trust company licence, and expand its business into the Caribbean region. Following this I was appointed to the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority for a three year term, the Island's financial regulator.

Two years ago I was made a Fellow of the Bermuda College.

I am now retired at age 82, and live in Bermuda.
Geography 1962-1966