NASSAU, Bahamas — Prime Minister the Hon. Philip E. Davis presented His Excellency Paul Andrew Gomez with instruments of appointment as High Commissioner to the Court of St. James’s in a small ceremony at the Office of the Prime Minister on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
High Commission Gomez rejoined the Foreign Ministry with a wealth of experience, having served as The Bahamas’ Ambassador to China from 2015 to 2017. A charted accountant with over four decades of experience, Mr. Gomez served most notably as Managing Director of Grant Thornton (now Bakertilly) The Bahamas, one of the premier accounting firms in the country, which he founded as Gomez & Co. at age 31 in 1990.
H.E Gomez’s appointment as the nation’s senior Diplomat to the United Kingdom is crucial with the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III to be held on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Westminster. Prime Minister Davis will head the Bahamian delegation that will represent The Bahamas at the Coronation.
Born in Nassau, on March 21, 1958, H.E. Gomez is the second of six children to Patrick and Jeanie Gomez. He is a 1974 and 1975 graduate of St. Augustine’s College and Queen’s College, respectively. Thereafter, he was employed by The Bahamas Government Public Treasury until August 1977, when he entered University.
He graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in December 1980 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. He has worked in both the Downtown Los Angeles and Nassau offices of the Global Accounting Firm that is now KPMG, and he is a California professionally qualified Certified Public Accountant (“CPA”).
In January 1990 at the age of 31, H.E. Gomez founded Gomez & Co., Chartered Accountants, which later became Gomez & Gomez with his brother Craig Tony Gomez. In 2001 the Firm changed its name to Grant Thornton Bahamas, the Bahamas Member Firm of Grant Thornton, the world’s seventh largest professional services network of independent accounting and consulting professional services member firms.
