23-26 March 2009 Scoping Meeting Invited Speaker

Franklin McDonald

Franklin McDonald is the new Director of the University of the West Indies Institute for Sustainable Development. He was the first Moderator of the White Water to Blue Water Partnership between the Caribbean Basin countries and the United States. He has worked as an Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme in the Caribbean, prior to which he was Executive Director of the Jamaica Natural Resources Conservation Authority. He also served as Director of Jamaican National Environment and Planning Agency, and as Project Manager for Pan-Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project.

For more than 30 years he has designed and implemented Programmes and Projects in Engineering Geology, Landslide and Erosion Control, Hazard and Risk Assessment, Disaster Loss Reduction Policies, Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Response and Economic Rehabilitation and Recovery Efforts. Since 1992 he was directly involved in programmes to achieve Agenda 21 targets in Jamaica.