M. Alida U. Francis is a Dutch civil servant who has been appointed island Governor of Sint Eustatius on April 10, 2024.

[citation needed] Her career started in 1989 as a broadcast journalist in Sint Maarten.

A year later she transferred to the government, where she started working in the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Sint Maarten as a specialist in protocol and public relations.

In 1995 she was appointed a member of the Nation Building Committee of the Netherlands Antilles on behalf of Sint Eustatius.

[3] The functions of government commissioner and the deputy government commissioners were appointed in February 2018 after the executive council and the island council of St. Eustatius were set aside due to an accusation of gross neglect of duties.