Honoree

Professor Dennis Pantin (1948- 2010)

Dennis Pantin (1948 – 2010) former Professor, Department of Economics, University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Professor Pantin was the founder and Coordinator of the Sustainable Economic Development Unit (SEDU) based within the Department and served on two occasions as Head of Department.

He received a B.Sc. Economics degree from UWI, St. Augustine and a M Phil (Development Studies) from the Institute of Developmental Studies, University of Sussex. He spent a year of scholarly leave at the Institute for Ecological Economics (USA); and the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University Collage, London (UK), respectively; and an earlier period of study leave at the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

He conducted policy oriented research on sustainable development related issues in several countries of the Caribbean including Belize, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Grenada, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. He published in regional and international journals; is author of the Economics of Sustainable Development in Caribbean SIDS and the Editor of the recently published Reader in the Caribbean Economy. He also co-authored the Economics of an Integrated (Watershed) approach to environmental management in Small Island Developing states (SIDS).

He served as the Chairman of the regulated Industries Commission (RIC) of Trinidad and Tobago and of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OCCUR) and was a founding member of the T&T Economics Association (TTEA); the Association of Caribbean Economists (ACE) and the Constitution Reform Forum (CRF) of Trinidad and Tobago.