- Capacity: Member
- Country: Jamaica
Resumé
Alexander Girvan is an Environmental Economist. His areas of expertise are ecosystem assessments, economic analysis, and environmental valuation, mainstreaming and communication. He currently works with vulnerable coastal Caribbean communities to develop sustainable livelihoods for the blue economy. This work includes the application participatory approaches, value chain methodologies and introduction of innovative finance. He completes this work in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and as an independent consultant with NGOs and IGOs in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Antigua and Barbuda. He is a coordinating lead author of the economic values chapter of Grenada IPBES National Ecosystem Assessment and is a Lead author on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) values assessment.
Alexander serves as a Director at the Cropper Foundation, a member of the Technical Sub-committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Extractive Industries Transparency Institute, and a member of the board of Advisors for the Journal of Caribbean Environmental Sciences and Renewable Energy (CESaRE). He was previously the Programme Coordinator of the Caribbean Sea Commission. In this role, he promoted diplomatic and scientific cooperation among the 23 member states of the Association of Caribbean States on issues pertaining to Caribbean Sea sustainability.
Alexander completed his BSc with a double major in Economics and Geography at McGill University and his MSc in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management at the University of York. He was awarded best-in-class honours for his MSc.
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