Professor Anthony Clayton
Visiting Professor
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.

