Eddie Greene

Edward Greene , a fellow of the Caribbean Policy Consortium, is also Executive Member of Diplomats without Borders and Professor Emeritus University of the West Indies where he had a distinguished career as Pro Vice Chancellor Development and Alumni Relations, Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (now Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies) and Interim Director of the Consortium Graduate School for the Social Sciences in the Caribbean. Following a stint as Senior Advisor, Health Systems Development at the Pan American Health Organization (1994-1999), he served the Caribbean Community as Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development (2000-2010) He is credited for playing leading roles in the establishment of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) which was declared by the UN, as an international best practice and the Caribbean Public Health Agency, the merger of seven regional health institutions into one agency . He was appointed as the UN Secretary Special Envoy for HIV in the Caribbean (2012-2017). Professor Greene who was Chancellor of the University of Guyana (2019-2025) has received numerous national, regional and international awards and is the author and co-author of 10 books and over 70 articles in refereed books and journals. He holds a BS Economics, London University, MSc. Mc Master University and PhD University of British Columbia.