A native of Barbados, Sir George is currently the Chancellor of The University of the West Indies. He became Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1995 and completed a second four-year term in 2003. In 2003, he was elected Director Emeritus of the PASB. In 2003, Mr. Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the United Nations appointed him as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. He was reconfirmed in this position by the current Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon.

He currently holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Sir George has received numerous awards in recognition of his work including prestigious decorations and national honours from many countries of the Americas. In 1990, he was made Knight Bachelor by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his services to Medicine. In 2001, he was awarded the Order of Caribbean Community, the highest honour that can be conferred on a Caribbean national.

Guyanese by birth, Professor Harris is currently the Vice Chancellor of The University of the West Indies. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University with a degree in Chemistry and proceeded on to a fellowship at Yale University where he received a Master of Philosophy in Biochemistry. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded a post-graduate degree, Doctor of Medicine at The University of the West Indies.

He is world renowned for his work in Rheumatology. He received the Ceiba-Geigy Prize which he shared with two other doctors who helped to define a disorder called Antiphospholipid Syndrome, and a diagnostic test devised for the disorder. He was the Dean and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Morehouse School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Rheuma tology at the University of Louisville, Kentucky.

Born in Grenada, Sir Alister graduated from the London School of Economics and from Oxford University. He is Vice Chancellor Emeritus of The University of the West Indies. He was Head of the Regional Negotiating Machinery, Secretary-General of CARICOM and Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations. Sir Alister has had visiting academic appointments at Princeton and Columbia University and several consultancies for the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

He is the author of several publications dealing with international trade. He received the Cacique’s Crown of Honour from the Government of Guyana, Honorary Doctor of Laws from UWI, the Order of Merit from the Government of Jamaica and he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II in 1992.

A native of Guyana, Sir Shridath is Chancellor Emeritus of The University of the West Indies, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1975-1990 and previous to this, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Justice of Guyana. He has been the Caribbean’s Chief Negotiator for international economic negotiations, Chairman of the West Indian Commission, Chancellor of The University of the West Indies from 1989-2003, Chancellor of the University of Guyana (1988-92) and Chancellor of the University of Warwick (1989-2001).

A lawyer, Sir Shridath studied at King’s College London (currently a Fellow), Gray’s Inn (currently an Honorary Master of the Bench), and the Harvard Law School. He was awarded the 2002 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development