Speakers
- Sir Dwight Venner - Feature Speaker
- Dr. Gene Leon
- Dr. Zsa- Zsa Leysner-Lenting
- Mr. Joseph Jason Cotton
- Dr. Naresh Singh
- Mrs. Marla Dukharan
- Mr. Ian Bertrand
- Mr. Clive Matthew
- Ms. Joycelyn Williams
- Ms. Corinne Gregoire
- Mr. Donald Palmer
- Mr. Willard Phillips
- Dr. Andre Yone Haughton
- Mr. Kyren Greigg
Willard Phillips
Biography
Willard Phillips is a national of Trinidad and Tobago. He holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and an MSc. in Agricultural Economics with specialization in Agricultural Marketing from the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada. He also holds an MSc in Environmental Economics from the University of Georgia, and has completed coursework towards a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Willard has more than twenty years of professional experience and has worked for national and international organizations in Central America and the Caribbean, including the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has also worked in the Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, in his native Trinidad and Tobago.
Over the past seven years he has done considerable research on the subject of environmental and natural resource issues both in the US and in the Caribbean, with particular focus on natural resource valuation and policy. Willard has been employed as an Economic Affairs Officer in the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Sub-regional Office in Trinidad and Tobago since September 2009. He currently undertakes focused research on sustainable development and macro-economic issues in the Region.
