Anthony T. Bryan

Professor Anthony T. Bryan is a leading scholar and an independent consultant on energy development, security, geopolitics, and renewable energy in the Caribbean and a widely published scholar on regional security issues in the circum-Caribbean. He is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Caribbean Policy Consortium and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, in Trinidad and Tobago. 

His academic career includes tenured professorships at the University of Rhode Island, and at the University of the West Indies-St. Augustine where he was the Director of the Institute of International Relations for a decade. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Indiana University at Bloomington, Georgetown University, Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. 

His think tank career includes: a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a residential fellow in the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a senior associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the Director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the North-South Center of the University of Miami. 

He is the author/editor of 10 books and numerous articles. Professor Bryan has been a member of several cabinet-appointed committees in Trinidad and Tobago on reviews of foreign policy and the restructuring of the diplomatic service. He has also testified on U.S.-Caribbean trade and security issues before United States Congressional Committees on several occasions. He holds BA and MA degrees and received his PhD in Latin American History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.