Country of Origin: Jamaica

Trevor L. Boothe is the Director, Technical Cooperation, Partnerships and Information (DTCPI) in the Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN) of the CARICOM Secretariat, formerly the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), and is a member of the OTN’s management team.

Mr. Boothe is responsible for ensuring that OTN maintains effective working relationships with its member states and existing donors with regard to sustaining the funding of technical cooperation activities, and he is at the nexus in the OTN between donor funding and the technical work of the agency, and as such is responsible for ensuring the availability of adequate donor resources to support those areas of OTN’s ongoing technical work programme requiring technical cooperation financing. The preparation of proposals for next cycle funding from existing donors and negotiations with those donors for such funding are also the responsibility of DTCP&I. In the matter of mobilization of new resources, DTCP&I works closely with the Director General of OTN on the identification of potential new donors and in negotiations for funding. The DTCP&I has supervision and direction of the day-to-day administration of grant funding, as well as OTN’s private sector, information and communications initiatives.

Mr. Boothe has extensive years of experience in governance, economic and social development issues, with particular emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean. He was a member of the Jamaican Foreign Service 1971-1976, attaining the rank of Counsellor in Jamaica’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York; Coordinator, United Nations Caribbean Environment Program 1976-1981; Director Investment Promotion, Jamaican National Investment Promotion (JNIP) 1981-1983; Public and Private Sector Consultant 1983-1992 with an intervening stint 1985-1988 as General Manager, Eagle Unit Trust Management Company of Jamaica. Mr. Boothe also served in senior positions with the Inter-American Development Bank from 1992-2004, covering Peru, Venezuela, Guyana and The Bahamas. Prior to his professional career, Mr. Boothe undertook Hispanic studies at the University of Madrid and earned a BA from Wilfred Laurier University College, Canada and a M.Phil from Kings College University of London.