Cheryl Lewis

Cheryl Lewis

Deputy Director-General, Legal & Consumer and Public Affairs

Office of Utilities Regulation

Ms. Cheryl Lewis is a practising Attorney-at-law and a British Chevening scholar. She holds the position of Deputy Director-General at the Office of Utilities Regulation, Jamaica (OUR), with responsibility for the Legal and Consumer & Public Affairs Departments.

With over 22 years of energy-related experience, she does extensive work and provides strategic advice to the OUR on legislative and regulatory matters, including electricity projects and consumer-related issues. She has also done considerable work regarding the inception and expansion of renewable projects in Jamaica, leading both the Government’s and OUR’s legal teams. She also played an integral part in introducing and establishing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Jamaican electricity sector and in developing the associated infrastructure. More recently, she was a member of the OUR’s team that provided technical support in Jamaica’s successful 2024 energy tender process and is involved in the implementation phase. In recognition of her work, she is the CARICOM Women In Sustainable Energy 2025 Awardee (Utilities & Industry).

Prior to joining the OUR, she worked in the Attorney General’s Chambers, Jamaica, where she held directorship posts, including Director of Commercial Affairs, advised Government officials & policymakers on electricity, privatisations, commercial and financial matters, and litigated matters in the telecommunications and electricity sectors.

She holds a Masters in International Business Law (LLM Distinction) from the University of Manchester, England; Legal Education Certificate from the Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica (LCE), and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the West Indies (LLB Upper Second Class), Cavehill, Barbados. She tutors Civil Procedure and Practice 1 at the Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica, and is a member of the Jamaican Bar Association and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. She is also a Notary Public.