Professor Anthony Clayton

Visiting Professor

Anthony Clayton
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Current Positions

  • Alcan Professor of Caribbean Sustainable Development, Institute for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies.
  • Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environmental Strategy in the School of Engineering at the University of Surrey.
  • Visiting Professor at the Institute for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation in the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
  • Adjunct Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Business and Management, University of Technology, Jamaica.
  • Special Advisor to the President, University of Technology, Jamaica.
  • International Associate, Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, University of St Andrew.
  • Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
  • Fellow of the Caribbean Academy of Science.
  • Advisor to the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery.
  • Member of the International Advisory Group, United Nations Environment Programme Division of Technology, Industry and Economics.
  • Member of the Expert Review Group, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  • Member of the UK Government Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship Panel for Jamaica.
  • Member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the Fifth Summit of the Americas.
  • Member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the Commonwealth Heads of Government 2009.

Research Interests

  • Sustainable development.
  • Development studies.
  • Scenario planning, technology roadmapping and foresighting.
  • Public policy, planning and regulation.
  • Innovation studies.
  • Cleaner production and eco-industrial efficiency.

Research Collaborations

  • University of Surrey
  • United Nations Environment Programme

Teaching

  • Course coordinator for the PhD in Sustainable Development programme at the University of the West Indies.
  • Principal or panel supervisor for 26 PhD students at the University of the West Indies.
  • Course coordinator and main lecturer for the Sustainable Tourism MSc module of the Tourism Studies programme in the Department of Management Studies.
  • Course coordinator and lecturer for the Environment and Sustainable Development MSc module in Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies.
  • Lecturer and co-coordinator for the National Security Policy and Programme Analysis MSc programme in the Department of Management Studies.
  • Supervisor for MSc dissertations at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies.
    I guest-lecture in six other MSc courses at UWI (including Development Theory and Policy, Governance and Public Policy, and Disasters Communication and Media).
  • Lecturer in the joint World Trade Organization - University of the West Indies Regional Trade Policy Course.

Books

  • A Clayton, G Spinardi and R Williams. Strategies for Cleaner Technology: a new agenda for government and industry. Earthscan, London. 1999.
  • A Clayton and N J Radcliffe. Sustainability: a Systems Approach. Earthscan, London. 1996. Second edition 1998.
  • A Clayton. Technology Roadmapping for Developing Countries. UNIDO, Vienna, 2005.
  • A Clayton, Akilah Anderson, Levi Atkinson, Anthony Clayton, Simone Duncan, Hopeton Dunn, Edwin Jones, Stanford Moore, Jaquelin Stevens and Philip Osei. Jamaica Regulatory Impact Study (4 volumes). CEPA - UWI, August 2006.