Anthony Clayton MA (Hons), PhD, CD is the Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey, Affiliated Scholar at the Jack Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University, Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the TWAS Social and Economic Sciences Committee, and Chairman of the Energy Program of the Inter-American Network of Academies of Science (IANAS). He served as Visiting Professor at the Institute for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh, Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the University of Technology, and International Associate of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of St Andrews.

His projects include economic diversification, trade, planning and regulatory reform, energy security, the future of media and telecommunications, future cities and new models of urban development, and national and citizen security, with policy studies for the Organization of American States, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the World Bank, the Inter-American Network of Academies of Science, the United Nations Environment Agency, and the governments of the UK, Trinidad and Tobago, the Cayman Islands and Jamaica amongst others. He served as Principal Investigator of the project that built the first net zero/energy-plus energy building in the Caribbean; as Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica, as the lead author of Jamaica’s Digital Switch-Over strategy, as Chairman of the Government of Jamaica Committee on Planning Reform and on the Government of Jamaica Climate Change Advisory Board,

He led a project that developed a future-oriented model of development planning; evaluated the national foresight exercise for the Government of South Africa, provided training on the role of foresighting in policy for science and technology for Africa’s Ministers of Science and Technology on behalf of the Commonwealth Secretariat; led a project to design Jamaica’s next city, and led three projects for the Inter-American Network of Academies of Science on designing the next generation of Caribbean cities.

He was the lead author of the intelligence-led policing strategy for Jamaica and Jamaica’s National Security Policy, served as an advisor on the development of CARICOM’s Crime and Security Strategy ‘Securing the Region’, served on the Government of Jamaica Crime Consensus Committee, on the Rule of Law Committee, and as Deputy Chairman of the Jamaica Constabulary Force Operational Reform Oversight Committee.