Dr. Richard Brown

Dr. Richard Brown is a career Diplomat and International Trade Specialist with over 14 years of experience.  He has served in the Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies in Geneva, Switzerland, where he represented Jamaica in multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), on a range of issues, including the trade in services, trade and development and intellectual property rights.

He has also served as Deputy Director for Bilateral and Regional Trade in the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, as well as Director of Trade in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) where, among other things, he provided general oversight on the national Trade Facilitation Reform Programme, and also led the initiative towards the development of a national services industry policy.

Currently, Dr. Brown is the Director for CARICOM Single Market and Sectoral Programmes at the CARICOM Secretariat, overseeing the implementation of the regional single market and integration arrangements, as well as the development of regional sectoral policies, including in the area of Private Sector and Industrial Development.

In 2013, Dr. Brown received a PhD in International Economics (Summa Cum Laude), from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies/University of Geneva, Switzerland, specializing in International Trade.  He is also a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he pursued a Postgraduate Certificate in Diplomatic Studies, as well as the University of the West Indies, where he obtained both a Masters degree in Economics, as well as a BSc. in Economics and Management.