Meredith Alister McIntyre
is an economist by profession, and like Sir Arthur
Lewis, is an alumnus of the London School of Economics
(LSE). He has been a Secretary General of CARICOM,
a Deputy Secretary General of UNCTAD, and an Assistant
Secretary General at the UN Office of the Director
General for Development and Economic Cooperation.
He has lectured at the University of the West Indies,
with visiting academic appointments at Princeton
and Columbia Universities. His public service in
the Caribbean region has included membership on
a variety of advisory councils in Jamaica, Trinidad
and Tobago, Belize, Guyana and OECS countries. He
recently demitted the
office of Vice-Chancellor of the Universityof the West
Indies, and now holds the position of Chief Technical
Advisor on the CARICOM Regional Negotiating Machinery.
He has spoken and published widely, among his titles are
"The Effects of Reverse Preferences on Trade Among
Developing Countries" (1974); "The Political
Economy of Independence for the Leeward and Windward Islands"
(1975); "The Role of the Economic Integration
Process in Regional Development: The Caribbean Experience"
(1976); "Review of Integration Movements in the
Third World with particular reference to the Caribbean
Community" (1983); "Opening our Windows
to the World" (1992); and "Trends in
the International Business Environment: Guidelines for
the Caribbean Private Sector" (1993).
Sir Alister was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in the 1992 New Year's Honour's List.
