Prashad posted:Django posted:CARL BARRINGTON GREENIDGE - CURRICULUM VITAE
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Mr. Carl Barrington Greenidge is a former Minister of Finance, Planning and Trade of Guyana. He has extensive experience at the policy, management and technical levels and has worked on public sector economics and agricultural policy as well as international trade and finance. He has provided distinguished service to his country, the Caribbean and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. That service has been in the design and management of Guyana’s Economic Recovery Programme (1988-1992) and the negotiation of the unique north-south cooperation compact, the Lomé Convention, inter alia. This latter pact aimed to alleviate the burden of poverty in the ACP regions which include the most trade dependent countries in the world and countries for which agriculture is dominant. He has successfully headed two joint ACP-EU funded institutions devoted to development cooperation and has, in the process, sat on both ‘sides’ of the Donor-Recipient interface. Mr. Greenidge has also published four monographs, numerous academic articles on economics and contributed to books on a variety of issues, including the political economy of agricultural modernisation, international agricultural trade negotiations and marine fisheries. He has been Co-President of the Joint Council of Ministers of the European Union and the ACP States.
NATIONALITY: Guyanese
GENDER: Male
DEGREES/EDUCATION:
- Birkbeck College and the London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, U.K, 1982-1983. Subject. small states, economic planning and trade
- M.Phil. Econs. (Ag. Econs.), Imperial College at Wye, University of London, U.K, 1972-1974
- B.A Social Studies (with Honours in Economics), University of Exeter, U.K, Devon, 1968-1971
EMPLOYMENT:
Senior Director /Deputy Senior Director: CRNM and CARICOM Secretariat
Consultant: Greenidge Associates.
The Director: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Netherlands
Secretary General: ad interim, ACP Group of States
Deputy Secretary General: ACP Group of States, Belgium
Senior Minister of Finance: Government of Guyana
Minister of Finance, Planning and Trade: Guyana, South America
Economic Adviser to the Executive President, Guyana
Chief Planning Officer and Secretary to the State Planning Board, Guyana
Head (ai) of Department of Economics, University of Guyana, (UG)
Coordinator of Graduate Programme (1975-1978);
Coordinator, Caribbean Public Enterprises Project (1975-1979)
Lecturer in Economics – on leave of absence (1979-1990)
Research Assistant and Tutor, Wye College, University of London (seconded to IDS, University of Nairobi, Kenya)
HIGH LEVEL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE:
Mr. Carl B. Greenidge was an active member of Guyana’s teams to many Summits of CARICOM, Commonwealth Heads of Government and the Non-Aligned Group. He participated in these for a first as a technician and subsequently as a Minister. As Minister and as Secretary General, ad interim, of the ACP Group, Mr. Greenidge played a prominent role in the negotiation and monitoring of implementation of four ACP-EU development compacts and the evolution of their key instruments. The latter included Stabex and the Forestry Protocol of Lomé IV. As DSG he was responsible for the technical management of the Secretariat which interfaced with the EU Commission and serviced the ACP Group’s Ambassadorial and Ministerial bodies in the negotiation of the Lomé Conventions (and its successor Cotonou) and the monitoring of their implementation. He supervised the work of the four Departments of the Secretariat - Trade and Commodity Protocols, Development Finance Cooperation, Regional and Cultural Cooperation and, Administration and Finance.
During his tenure as Secretary General (ad interim) of the Group, the Group and EU successfully approached the GATT for the first time for the Waiver under which the Lomé Convention currently operates. He also supervised the ACP preparations and presentations at the two WTO Banana Dispute Panels. In the light of the performance of the Secretariat at the time, the Group authorized the convening of regular Summits of ACP Heads of State and Heads of Government. An initiative to establish, with UNCTAD and IBRD, a technical committee to devise appropriate risk management instruments for farmers involved in international agricultural trade, was agreed by Mr. Greenidge during his term.
Mr. Greenidge also headed the specialised Lomé institution, Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA). This joint EU-ACP institution is responsible for technical assistance and capacity-building to actors and institutions serving the ACP rural sector. It specialises in information communication technologies (ICTs) and ICT management, areas in which it has collaborated with the IBRD on the GDLN (ED-Rural). It publishes an extensive range of books and documents, initially on research findings in agriculture. Latterly, this coverage has been widened to include all aspects of agriculture and rural development and more particularly agricultural policy. Under Mr. Greenidge’s leadership the Centre was re-positioned to serve as a central hub in the ACP agricultural and rural knowledge network. Under the rubric, ‘sharing knowledge - improving livelihoods’, the Centre helps ACP rural stakeholders to harness the ICT revolution. To this end, it embarked on several successful initiatives to marry traditional technologies with newer forms of communication. One example is ‘Spore -n- More’, an initiative launched in association with ‘World Space’ (satellite broadcaster) for digital distribution in audio or multimedia format. Another is the set of four web portals - ‘AGRITRADE’, ‘ICT Update’, Knowledge for Development’ and ‘Agricta’. These initiatives covered international agricultural trade, ICT potential and its management for the rural sector, science and technology, as well as, electronic networking. AGRITRADE, probably the most popular site among ACP actors, serves as a striking example of how the ‘marriage’ can strengthen ACP negotiators’ and stakeholders’ capacity to network in pursuit of a common and complex goal. Furthermore, at the Doha and Hong Kong meetings, ACP negotiators were unique among developing country sub-groups in having access to dynamic ICT support that enabled them to be in touch both with stakeholders in their countries and the international Press during the Conferences.
He oversaw the inclusion of numerous gender related issues among the Centre’s themes and, facilitated the enhanced participation of women’s representatives in a range of international fora, including the 3rd World Conference on Women. Most importantly, the Centre itself, which had no female managers prior to the commencement of Mr. Greenidge’s tenure in 2000, boasted a management team half of which was female when he demitted office.
MINISTERIAL AND POLITICAL LEADERSHIP:
Mr. Greenidge has been Guyana’s longest serving Minister of Finance and the only person to have headed the ACP Group of States at both the political and technical levels. His success at this level has been partly due to an outstanding record in the field of international negotiations. During the course of Lomé IV he served as President of the ACP Council of Ministers and Co-President of the Joint ACP-EU Council of Ministers. In these capacities he presided over the launch of the Lomé IV negotiations and was a member of the Presidential Troika which successfully concluded those negotiations. He served as Ministerial Negotiator on Trade and Commodity Protocols for the Lomé III negotiations, probably the most innovative and supportive of all the North South accords, and was twice elected ACP Ministerial Spokesman on Sugar. In 1985, Minister Greenidge, co-chaired with V.P. Singh of India, the United Nations Delhi Conference on the GSTP, forerunner of the Punte del Este Conference launching the Uruguay Round of GATT.
Mr. Greenidge was responsible for supervising the design, negotiation and implementation of Guyana’s Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) which successfully restored it to macro-economic balance and monetary stability. In the process he managed a series of initiatives which set the scene for the country’s early eligibility for HIPC relief. These initiatives included a successful resource mobilisation tour of North American, European and Asian capitals (with IBRD Staff to raise a bridging loan of over US$240mn to clear the country’s Bretton Woods arrears. He also led negotiations with the trade unions on public sector wage agreements. The Caribbean Council of Labour (CCL) and the GTUC subsequently acknowledged his contribution in the latter regard.
Minister Greenidge served as Guyana’s Governor for the World Bank Group, the IMF and other financial entities such as OPEC, CDB and IDB. He was a prominent Caribbean Minister and participated in many international debates on TV and elsewhere.
Furthermore, he has been directly involved in the voluntary/community sector in the UK, Guyana and Belgium for many years. Partly in consideration of such activities in the UK in his early years he received the Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award. He was associated with the establishment of the Miami-based charity, ‘Food for the Poor’ in Guyana in 1988.
RESEARCH, TEACHING AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Mr. Greenidge has undertaken research on poverty, food and nutrition policy, agro-industry and, science and technology. He has done field work in the UK, Kenya, and the Caribbean. During his field work in Kenya he was co-opted to the Scandinavian Special Integrated Rural Development Project’s Steering Committee for the Eastern Province. He was also privileged to prepare background material for renown ILO Employment Mission led by the late Prof Hans Singer of the IDS, Sussex University. At Wye College he contributed to the pioneering research work of the College on peasant farm decision-making problems. At Wye and UG he lectured on a range on undergraduate and post-graduate courses and supervised post-graduate theses. He has lectured on a course on evidence-based policy at the Graduate School, University of Maastricht and been a Resource Person for the Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management (CPTM). He has also been a sometime Research Fellow at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and a Referee for the journal, Social and Economic Studies (SES). He also served as UWI External Examiner in Agricultural Economics and has been invited to serve as Senior Visiting Research Fellow at African Centre for Investment Analysis (ACIA), Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Mr. Greenidge has been a member of the Board of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI).
He has also served on many Boards and bodies in Europe, including:
- EU and ACP Informal Expert Group on Science and Technology (Chaired the ACP side)
- Vice Chairman and founding member of the European Forum on International Cooperation (EUFORIC) and
- Vice-Chairman of the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM
- University of Oxford
- Regulatory Policy Research Institute (RPRI) and
- Regulatory Policy Centre (RPC)
He has contributed to international fora deliberating on key international issues undertaken a number of engagements and consultancies for private firms, the UN, UNECA, UNDP, CARICOM and the Commonwealth Secretariat over the years.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
- Agricultural Economics Society (UK)
- European Association of Development Research (and Training) Institutes (EADI)
- American Economics Association
- International Institute of Public Finance
- Caribbean Agricultural Economics Society - Co-opted Member of Executive Board and Editorial Committee (former member)
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS:
- International Yearbook and Statesmen's Who's Who 1991+
- Who's Who in International Affairs 1991+
- Who's Who in Europe 1995+
- Who's Who in Finance and Industry 1995/6+
- Who’s Who in the World 1995+
- Who’s Who in International Organizations 1995+
This Greenidge got a longer resume than Odeen. I was thinking Odeen's resume was the longest one I ever read.
Do you know how long your resume has to be for you to bankrupt the same country twice? In two different eras? This achievement should put him in the Guinness Book of records and make the resume even longer.