Moderator: Gloria Joseph, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Public Service Reform, Social Partnership, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development of Dominica
Panellists:
• Frederick Stephenson, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Consumer Affairs of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Mark Bynoe, Assistant Executive Director of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
• Elizabeth Emanuel, Head of Corporate Communications Technical Assistance Management Teams of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (virtual)
• Saskia Carusi, Deputy Chief of the Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) (pre-recorded video)
• Dwight Williams, Senior Manager of the Spatial Planning Division at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) of Jamaica
Panel discussion
Moderator: Shelton Nicholls, former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and former Senior Financial Sector Expert, International Monetary Fund
Panellists:
• Anya Thomas, Sustainable Development Officer, Small Island Developing States Unit, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations (by video link)
• Walton Webson, Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda to the United Nations
• Jason Cotton, Lead Economist, Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)
• Richard Harris, Deputy Director of Statistics, Central Statistical Office of Saint Lucia
• Abdullahi Abdulkadri, Coordinator, Statistics and Social Development Unit, ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean
Moderator: Patrick McCaskie, Permanent Secretary a.i., Economic Affairs Division, Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment of Barbados
Panellists:
• Hyginus Leon, Programme Lead, Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity (DBRP)
• Rodinald Soomer, Executive Director, CARICOM Development Fund
• Manuel Rodríguez, Managing Director, Head of the Latin America Investment Banking Group at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
• Sheldon McLean, Coordinator Economic Development Unit, ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean