Professor Andrew Downes is an Advisor of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM). 

Professor Downes is a Professor of Economics at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus, and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES).  

He has held several advisory positions, and served as Chairman, Executive Committee, the Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, as well as Lead Negotiator for CARICOM, Consultative Group on Smaller Economies, FTAA Negotiations.  A Barbadian national, he holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Manchester and a M.Sc. (Economics) and B.Sc. (Economics) from the University of the West Indies (UWI).  His main research interests are in: Applied Econometrics, Human Resource and Labour Economics, Economics of Business Decisions/Organisational Economics, and Economic Growth and Development in Small Developing Countries. 

The holder of numerous academic awards and fellowships, Professor Downes lectures in the area of quantitative economics, a strength he brings to the CRNM as an advisor.