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Professor Anthony Clayton

MA, PhD, FCAS
Visiting Professor

Short Biography:

Current Positions
Alcan Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development, Institute for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies.
Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environmental Strategy in the School of Engineering at the University of Surrey.
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Business and Management, University of Technology, Jamaica.
Special Advisor to the President, University of Technology, Jamaica.
International Associate, Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, University of St Andrew.
Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Science.
Advisor to the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery.
Member of the International Advisory Group, United Nations Environment Programme Division of Technology, Industry and Economics.
Member of the Expert Review Group, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Member of the UK Government Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship Panel for Jamaica.
Member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
Member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the Commonwealth Heads of Government 2009.

Research Interests:

• Sustainable development.
• Development studies.
• Scenario planning, technology roadmapping and foresighting.
• Public policy, planning and regulation.
• Innovation studies.
• Cleaner production and eco-industrial efficiency.

Research Collaborations:

• University of Surrey
• United Nations Environment Programme

Teaching:

• Course coordinator for the PhD in Sustainable Development programme at the University of the West Indies.
• Principal or panel supervisor for 26 PhD students at the University of the West Indies.
• Course coordinator and main lecturer for the Sustainable Tourism MSc module of the Tourism Studies programme in the Department of Management Studies.
• Course coordinator and lecturer for the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc module in Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies.
• Lecturer and co-coordinator for the National Security Policy and Programme Analysis MSc programme in the Department of Management Studies.
• Supervisor for MSc dissertations at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies.
  I guest-lecture in six other MSc courses at UWI (including Development Theory and Policy, Governance and Public Policy, and Disasters Communication and Media).
• Lecturer in the joint World Trade Organization - University of the West Indies Regional Trade Policy Course.

Books:

• A Clayton, G Spinardi and R Williams. Strategies for Cleaner Technology: a new agenda for government and industry. Earthscan, London. 1999.
• A Clayton and N J Radcliffe. Sustainability: a Systems Approach. Earthscan, London. 1996. Second edition 1998.
• A Clayton. Technology Roadmapping for Developing Countries. UNIDO, Vienna, 2005.
• A Clayton, Akilah Anderson, Levi Atkinson, Anthony Clayton, Simone Duncan, Hopeton Dunn, Edwin Jones, Stanford Moore, Jaquelin Stevens and Philip Osei. Jamaica Regulatory Impact Study (4 volumes). CEPA - UWI, August 2006.

Contact Details

Email	anthony.clayton@uwimona.edu.jm (Office) aclaytoncontact@aim.com (Home)
Postal Address	c/o Centre for Environmental Strategy Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences University of Surrey (D3) GU2 7XH United Kingdom