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Donovan Stanberry is Campus Registrar of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. In 2004, he was appointed Jamaica's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Land and Environment. In April 2006, he became Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. In 2016 and until 2019, Stanberry served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries,  Stanberry has represented the Government of Jamaica at many international forums in the areas of water policy and management, environment, agriculture, MSME development, industry, and commerce. He has played a major and sometimes pioneering role in the formulation of policies and legislation in the subject areas under his various ministries’ portfolio. In recognition of his outstanding public service, Stanberry, also a Justice of the Peace, was conferred with the Order of Distinction (Commander Class) in 2018, by the Government of Jamaica. He is author of How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar-Dependent Community in Jamaica (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Lystra Fletcher-Paul is a former lecturer in Biometrics at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago. She has more than thirty years of experience working in the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. She was Professional Officer in the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) in Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica. She has also been employed as Biometrician at the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), St Lucia. In 1995, she joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) where she held several positions, including Technical Officer in the Land and Water Development Division in their Headquarters in Rome, Integrated Natural Resources Management Officer/ Regional Land and Water Officer in the Sub-Regional Office in Barbados; FAO Representative in Guyana from 2009 to 2013; and for Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname in 2015. In 2017 she was appointed as the Sub-Regional Coordinator for the Caribbean where she served in Barbados until her retirement in 2018. She was presented with the Distinguished Woman in Trade Award for 2024 by the Shridath Ramphal Centre for International Trade Law, Policy and Services, of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, in recognition of her outstanding service to the advancement of agriculture and food security policy and research in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). 

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