Experts in Global and Regional Affairs

WHO WE ARE

Global Frontier Advisory and Development Services was founded by Edward Greene and Auriol Europe Greene. We specialize in global and regional affairs, and are experts in change management, poverty alleviation, climate resilience, education and training, gender equality, sustainable development and the green economy, project design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

At Global Frontier, we are promoters of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, with special reference to our areas of competence (listed above). We are also conversant with the programs and policies of major global institutions including:

UN System
World Bank
Regional Institutions
Civil Society
Multilateral/donor agencies
European Union

Edward Greene

Auriol Europe Greene

Why Choose Us?

Our company's directors and associates are interconnected with primary advocates, planners, and practitioners for achieving the targets of 2030 SDGs.

ABOUT OUR FOUNDERS

Edward Greene, Chief Executive Office (CEO)

Edward Greene is a Development Scientist and Practitioner with over 30 years of experience as a Political Economist, Social Policy Researcher, Negotiator, Advocate, Fundraiser, and Community Organizer. He specializes in Health and Human Development, Education and Training, Climate Change and Environmental Protection, Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls, Poverty Alleviation and Youth Leadership.

Edward has held lead roles in institutional strengthening for major academic, civil society regional, and international programmes. These include: establishing the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV in the Caribbean (PANCAP), designated as an international best practice; the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA); the Consortium Graduate School in the Social Science for the Caribbean University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Guyana; and Exchange Programmes among Universities in the Commonwealth. He is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); former UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS for the Caribbean Region; and former Special Advisor, Health & Human Development with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

He holds membership in several Regional and International Boards; involved in consultancies with major Multilateral and Bilateral agencies and Governments. Edward also led Regional delegations to several countries including Japan, the UK, Switzerland, Spain, France, Latin America & the Caribbean and Africa. In addition, he is the author of ten books, and over sixty articles in refereed journals.

His education includes a B.Sc in Economics, University of London, an M.Sc in Political Economy from McMaster University, and a P.hD in International Relations and Political Science, University of British Columbia. Over the course of his career, Edward has received several prestigious award. Among them National Honors from Guyana and Suriname, and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is Professor Emeritus, UWI.

Auriol Europe Greene, Director

Auriol Europe Greene has professional experience spanning 30 + years in Program & Project Management, Information Management, Systems Development, Business Analysis, Innovation & Planning, Strategy & Management, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Client Relationship Management, Capacity Building, Research, Conference & Logistics Planning, Mentorship Programs.

Auriol is a former World Bank Group staffer. Her experience includes working with clients in global communities, Partners, Donors, NGOs, Civil Society, Government Agencies and other Stakeholders. She has also performed leading roles at the World Bank as Task Force Leader on high profile World Bank projects; Member of the Diversity Board, Member of Peer Review Services Group, and mentorship to peers & colleagues. She participated in numerous missions, meetings and conferences in Asia, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean & Latin America.

Her education includes a B.Sc in Information Systems and Management, University of Maryland and an M.Sc in Information and Telecommunications Systems for Business, Johns Hopkins University. She also has additional University Certificates in specialized fields: The Challenges of Global Poverty; Globalization-Winners & Losers - Challenges for Developed and Developing Countries; Strategic Management and Planning in the new global economy.

Sir George Alleyne, Special Adviser

Sir George Alleyne, a native of Barbados is a medical graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) where he subsequently pursued an academic career. He was appointed Professor of Medicine in UWI in 1972 and Chair of the Department of Medicine in 1976. He joined the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981, became Director on 1 February 1995 and after re-election in 1998, completed a second four-year term on 31 January 2003.

In 2003 he was elected Director Emeritus of PAHO. From February 2003 until December 2010 he was the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. From 2003 to 2017 he was Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and was a visiting professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University also from 2003 to 2017. Sir George has an extensive scientific bibliography and has given numerous presentations and lectures about a variety of health issues.

Sir George has received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including honorary degrees, prestigious decorations and national and international honors. 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 the Caribbean Community, the highest honor that can be conferred on a Caribbean national.

He is married to Sylvan Chen and they have three children.

Global Frontier Advisers

Garfield Barnwell

Garfield Barnwell is a development economist from the Caribbean with more than 10 years of experience negotiating, drafting, managing and implementing country projects, designing, monitoring and evaluating development policies in small open economies. Mr. Barnwell brings several years of leadership experience in development policies and programs, with a strong focus on structural reforms.

From 2005 – 2016 he was Director of Sustainable Development at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Guyana. During this period, he coordinated regional policy action plans, mobilized expertise and supported operational teams in delivering specific outcomes. He
also led the implementation of CARICOM’s strategic approach in addressing the region’s sustainable development programs - disaster risk reduction, climate change and variability and environment policies into national macroeconomic frameworks and sectoral portfolios.
Mr. Barnwell also served as Senior Economic Adviser at the Guyana Mission to the United Nations, New York, from 1999 – 2005. At the UN he led the Group of 77 (133 developing countries membership of the UN) engagements with the UN organs and multilateral development partners in the development and implementation of the developing countries agenda. As a member of Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS) he led the preparation of strategic negotiation documents for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) for the 2000 Millennium Summit, New York, 2002 Financing for Development Summit, Monterrey, the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg and the 2005 International Meeting on the Review of Small Island Developing States in Mauritius.
Prior to joining the Guyana Mission, Mr. Barnwell was Coordinator of the Caribbean Capacity Building for Environmental Management (CCBEM) Project financed by the World Bank and the Commonwealth Secretariat, Fund for Technical Cooperation and implemented by the University
of the West Indies, Jamaica from 1997 – 1999. The CCBEM Project built institutional arrangements and capacity for the implementation of environment management in the Caribbean. Mr. Barnwell holds a Master of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Manchester,
Manchester, UK, a Graduate Diploma in Development Economics from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from University of Guyana.

Myrna Bernard

Myrna Bernard is a professional science educator and Human Resource Development (HRD) specialist with over 30 years of experience at both national and regional levels in the Caribbean. Over the past twelve years, she has led multi-disciplinary teams of professionals in the development and implementation of integrated strategies and programmes to address the continually emerging demands for relevance and effectiveness in Human Resource Development.

Ms Bernard served in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat for over twenty years, twelve of which were in the position of Director, Human Development. She has represented the Secretariat in various regional and international fora on Human Development. Previous positions held include Lecturer in Science Education and Vice Principal (Administration) at the Cyril Potter College of Education, Guyana and Lecturer in Education Management at the University of Guyana.

She holds a B.Sc. Hons (Physics), University of the West Indies; and Dip.Ed (Science Education) and M.Ed (Education Management and Supervision), University of Guyana.

Valerie Wilson

Valerie Wilson is an Immunologist and public health professional who has provided leadership and technical advisory services to Ministries of Health, private and public sector laboratories and staff in 23 countries within the Caribbean region, through her work as Laboratory Manager and Project Manager for the European Union funded Laboratory Strengthening Project at the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC/PAHO/WHO) from 1990 to 2007, and from 2008 to present at the Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF).

She is currently Director of the non-governmental organization, Caribbean Med Labs Foundation (CMLF) which was established in 2008 to support lab strengthening within the Caribbean region.

Ms. Wilson has a Masters Degree in Immunology and an Masters in Business Administrations. She has extensive experience in the areas of public health laboratory reference services, laboratory management, quality improvement and strategic management. She led the initiative to raise awareness of governments and laboratories in the Caribbean region with respect to the need for medical laboratory standards and quality management systems, and for regulation of medical laboratories. As a direct result of her work, the Caribbean region adopted the international Standard (ISO 15189) for medical laboratories in 2005. She led the development of a framework for national laboratory policy that was endorsed by Ministers of Health in 2014 and facilitated the development of national laboratory policies and strategic plans for laboratory services in several Caribbean countries.
She played a key role in supporting CARICOM in her capacity as Consultant, in the design and development of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). Under her leadership, CMLF has partnered with the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (CARICOM PANCAP) in implementing the laboratory component of the Global Fund Round 9 Grant for strengthening of HIV/AIDS national and regional laboratory networks within the Caribbean region from 2011 to 2015 and with the OECS GF grant for HIV and TB Elimination (2016-2019).
Ms. Wilson has been involved in several successful collaborative partnerships with international institutions, including the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC); the Michener Institute, Canada, the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), USA, and the European Union in support of improving laboratory services. She is currently a member of the PAHO Regional Validation Committee for Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission (EMTCT) and the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In-Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE-IVD).

Professor Compton Bourne

Professor Bourne is a graduate of the University of London, the University of Birmingham and the University of the West Indies. He was President of the Caribbean Development Bank from 1 May,2001 to 30 April 2011 and Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2014. Prior to the appointment at the Caribbean Development Bank, he was Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies and Pro Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development.

For various periods, Professor Bourne served as a Director of the National Savings Commission of Jamaica; Commissioner of the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago; Vice-Chairman, UNESCO Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean; Director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago; Director, Trinidad Publishing Company; and Chancellor, University of Guyana. He is a Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences, past President of the Caribbean Studies Association, and past Vice-President of the Caribbean Agro-Economic Society.

He is a Member of the Order of Excellence, the highest honour of the Republic of Guyana, and is a recipient of the Caribbean Studies Distinguished Service Award , The American Foundation for the University of the West Indies Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Caribbean, and the National Coalition on Caribbean Affairs International Service Award, Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) (The University of the West Indies), the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Higher Education (Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago).

Professor Bourne is the author or editor of 11 books and the author of more than 60 scholarly papers in addition to more than 50 research reports and advisory memoranda for Caribbean Governments, foreign governments, United Nations Development Programme, international development institutions and organizations, and regional and international financial institutions.

Professor Elsie Le Franc

Elsie Le Franc is currently an independent consultant with training and experience in Sociology with particular expertise in Medical Sociology. Her early academic years were spent in Rural Sociology research that sharpened her understanding of many of the social and sociological issues in Caribbean rural societies. She has developed extensive research and teaching expertise in areas such as social determinants of health, health inequality, health services organisation and delivery, health policy analysis, HIV/AIDS sexual related behaviours.

Most recently her interests include the links among interpersonal violence, domestic abuse and health as well as on social policy analysis, health services and systems organisation and reform. She has been engaged in consultancies in the entire Caribbean and Africa, specifically Ghana, Nigeria and Malawi. Her engagements under the auspices of a variety of agencies including the Wellcome Trust (UK), WHO, PAHO, IADB, IDRC, the Global Fund for the Fight against AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria GFATM], the Global Alliance for Immunisation and Vaccination (GAVI) and Family Health International/USAID. She held prominent positions such as Scientific Secretary for the Caribbean Public Health Agency , formerly the Caribbean Health Research Council and member of the Technical Advisory Committee of GAVI . Professor LeFranc has published widely — over 50 articles and technical reports and 6 books/monographs. She was Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) – now Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES)], UWI. She holds a Ph.D and M.Phil Yale University; B.Sc [University of Manchester] and is Professor Emeritus, UWI.

Kesaundra Alves

Kesaundra Alves is an Attorney-at-Law admitted to the Guyana Bar in October 2008 after graduating with honours from the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago. She is also the holder of a Master of Laws degree from Dalhousie University in Canada and a Health Law, Ethics and Policy fellow of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). She has been employed with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in the fields of communications and health sector development, and thereafter at the Ministry Public Health where she engaged in legislative drafting, communications and advocacy related to tobacco control.

She subsequently became a consultant working on human rights, advocacy, governance and public health law issues with Government and non-governmental organisations, the CARICOM Secretariat, and multiple United Nations organisations including the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO). She is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Kesaundra is passionate about and committed to using her legal education and training as tools to advance human rights as a critical component of development .

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, now Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Delaware, served as Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana from June 2016 to June 2019, having served previously as Executive-in-Residence at the University at Albany, State University of New York and President of Fort Valley State University. A political scientist, earlier he had served as Provost and Senior Vice President at York College, City University of New York, Provost at Radford University in Virginia, Associate Dean for Budget and Facilities of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University (FIU), and Dean of the Honors College at FIU.

An expert on Caribbean security, drugs, and crime, he formulated the concept of “Geonarcotics” in the early 1990s to study the complex relationship involving drugs, geography, power, and politics and later applied the concept to a major study of the Caribbean, which was funded by the McArthur Foundation and published as Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty Under Siege (Penn State University Press, 1997).
Dr. Griffith was awarded Guyana’s third highest national award, the Cacique Crown of Honor, in 2017 for exemplary international scholarship and transformational higher education leadership and the William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education in 2015. He has published several books and 50 scholarly and policy articles, and he currently is writing Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime and Terrorism on Security and Sovereignty in the Caribbean for the University of Illinois Press. He has been a consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, USAID, Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and several other agencies. Ivelaw also has testified before the United States Congress on security issues, and he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, D.C., the Royal Military College of Canada, and the George Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. Currently he is a Senior Associate with the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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