Carl B. Greenidge is The Deputy Senior Director, in the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) Barbados office, and is a member of the CRNM’s four (4) person management team. 

Mr. Greenidge returns to the region after extensive service in Europe on behalf of the ACP and Caribbean in particular, at both the political and managerial levels. He served as Secretary General (ad interim) of the ACP Group in Brussels and Director of the joint ACP-EU specialist institution on information communication technology, the CTA in Wageningen, The Netherlands. He has been associated with Lomé and Cotonou negotiations since 1982 and was heading the ACP Group when both the first Banana Panel sat and the first Lomé waiver was obtained at the GATT. As Co-President of the Joint ACP-EU Council he launched the Lomé IV negotiations. His trade experience outside of the EU-ACP arena includes CBI and EAI negotiations and as Deputy Chairman of the UN Punte del Este Conference which launched the Uruguay Round of GATT.

 As Minister of Finance he headed the Guyana teams which negotiated the many agreements, such as Paris Club and the first ever programme for the clearance of arrears to the Multilateral Institutions under the so-called ‘Intensified Collaborative Approach’ for chronically indebted countries and buy-back of commercial debt, on which successful management of Guyana’s ERP and HIPC eligibility were based.

Mr. Greenidge’s professional interests are extensive and he has published on a variety of issues ranging from privatization to the management of a common property resource and the political economy of agricultural modernisation.  He has served on a variety of international bodies including the European Forum on International Cooperation (EUFORIC), the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) and the 5^th UN Expert Group on Financial Issues of Agenda 21 which spawned the ‘Nairobi Initiative on Capacity Building for Financing Sustainable Development’. He was Vice Chairman of each of these bodies and is a former member of the Advisory Boards of the University of Oxford’s Regulatory Policy Research Institute (RPRI) and Regulatory Policy Centre (RPC). Most recently he has been a Coordinating Lead Author of the International Agricultural Assessment of Science and Technology (IAASTD) with responsibility for East, South Asia and the Pacific Regions.

He is the father of two daughters and a son.