Working Group on Small Island Developing States

WORKING GROUP LEADERS:


Rolph Payet, Advisor to the President, Seychelles
Ambassador Tuiloma Neroni Slade, Former Permanent Representative of Samoa to the United Nations,

 former Chair of AOSIS, and former Judge, International Criminal Court
Hon. Ronny Jumeau, UN Ambassador for Seychelles
Cristelle Pratt, Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
Tim Adams, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Ambassador Angus Friday, Chairman, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Permanent

 Representative of Grenada to the United Nations
LaVerne Walker, Coastal Zone Unit, Ministry of Physical Development, Environment and Housing, St.

 Lucia
Garfield Barnwell, Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
Dianne Quarless, UNDESA SIDS Unit
Vincent Sweeney, UNEP/Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management Project, Caribbean
Ambassador Jagdish Koonjul, Mauritius, former Chair, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
 

 

WORKING GROUP MEMBERS:


Alfred Duda, Global Environment Facility
Fazal Ibrahim Ali, University Consortium of Small Island States
Christopher Corbin, UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme, Regional Coordinating Unit
Laleta Davis-Mattis, Jamaica National Heritage Trust
Annick de Marffy, Independent Consultant, former Director, UN-DOALOS
Arthur Webb, Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC)
Rudolf Dorah, Constitutional Reform Congress of Solomon Islands
Arthur Gray, Representative of the Organisation of American States (OAS) to Haiti
John Low, Adviser to the Minister of Marine Resources for the Cook Islands
Franklin McDonald, UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme
Marina N’Deye Pereira Silva, Independent Consultant, Portugal (Cape Verde)
Nguyen Hong Thao, FrontierCommittee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vietnam
James Hardcastle, TNC Australia
Alf Simpson, Independent Consultant, Pacific Islands
Asterio Takesy, Director, Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Cesar Toro, IOCARIBE
Dirk Troost, formerly Coasts and Small Islands, UNESCO
David VanderZwaag, Dalhousie University, IUCN Specialist Group on Ocean Law and Governance
Jon Van Dyke, University of Hawaii Law School
Fathimath Ghina, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO
Raj Mohabeer, Indian Ocean Commission
Gerald Miles, The Nature Conservancy
Nelson Andrade, Caribbean Environment Programme, UNEP
Dominique Benzaken, Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Mary Seet-Cheng, Ambassador of Singapore to the Republic of Panama
Natasha Turnquest, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bahamas