Mr. Isaac Solomon served as the Acting President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) from January 2024 to January 2025. In this role, he was responsible for the Bank’s strategic direction, overall management, and engagement with member countries and development partners.

His substantive position is Vice President (Operations), where he provides leadership and direction to the Economics and Projects Departments and the United Kingdom Caribbean Infrastructure Partnership Fund.

Mr. Solomon holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Management from the University of the West Indies and a Master of Science in Financial Management from the University of London’s Centre for International Education in Economics. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

In November 2022, CAF – Development Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean – officially launched its Regional Management Office for the Caribbean located in Port of Spain, Trinidad and headed by Dr. Stacy Richards-Kennedy, Regional Manager for the Caribbean.

CAF has a US$36 billion-dollar portfolio of projects across Latin America and the Caribbean and Dr. Richards-Kennedy is leading CAF’s efforts to provide increased development financing to governments and private sector clients across the region.

Dr. Richards-Kennedy has over 25 years’ experience in multilateral negotiations, development management and international finance. Her diverse experience includes forging strategic partnerships, leading multi-disciplinary teams and marshalling resources for the successful execution of projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Richards-Kennedy formerly served as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs at The University of the West Indies, which is ranked among the top 1.5% of universities globally. She also has extensive experience working in multilateral development agencies. She was Assistant Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao and St Maarten; Chief Technical Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); Consultant, The World Bank, Washington DC and Programme Specialist, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris.

A national of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Richards-Kennedy is fluent in Spanish, French and English and has a working knowledge of Portuguese and French Creole. She holds a Doctorate in Education from The University of Sheffield, an MSc in Development Management from American University (Washington DC), an MBA specializing in International Finance from American University (Washington DC) as well as a Postgraduate Diploma (International Relations) and Bachelor of Arts in Foreign Languages, both from The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad).

Dr. Richards-Kennedy has served on several national as well as international boards and committees and has received various awards and recognitions, including the IDB Martin Luther King Award for outstanding contribution to the promotion of social inclusion, American University’s Ernest M. Aiken Award to Outstanding International Scholars, selection as one of the 50 Most Distinguished Alumni of The UWI Institute of International Relations, and many others.

Mr. Lennox O’Reilly Lewis is a Civil Engineer with over 28 years of technical and managerial experience, in infrastructure development in the Caribbean. Mr. Lewis currently serves as the acting Director of Projects at the Caribbean Development Bank, where he leads staff responsible for the preparation, appraisal and implementation of all CDB-financed economic infrastructure projects in 19 Borrowing Member Countries stretching from Guyana to Belize.

Mr. Lewis’ professional career includes serving as: Water Engineer at the Central Water and Sewerage Authority in St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Sanitary Engineer at the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute; and Solid Waste Manager in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Mr. Lewis is a Past President of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association. He holds a B.Eng in Civil Engineering from the University of Manchester and an M.Sc in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University.

Dr Alexander Budzier is a Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is an expert on the challenges of managing projects, with a particular focus on IT, infrastructure, energy, mega events and change.

Alexander is the Academic Director of the Hong Kong Major Projects Leadership Programme and Australian Major Projects Leadership Academy. He also teaches on Oxford’s MSc for Major Programme Management, the MBA programme, and the UK Major Projects Leadership Academy.

Prior to joining Oxford University, Alexander worked at T-Mobile International and was a consultant with McKinsey's Business Technology Office in Düsseldorf and Chicago. He continues to apply insights, data, and world-leading research to projects as the co-founder of the specialist consultancy Oxford Global Projects.

Agronomist with a Master’s and Ph.D. in Plant Pathology, specializing in biological control. He began his career as a professor of Phytopathology and Environmental Microbiology and has been a researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) since 2001.

His work focuses on research, development, and innovation at the intersection of agriculture and the environment. His research has advanced the development of bioinputs for sustainable agriculture, the evaluation of sustainability practices, and the assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture.

He coordinated Embrapa’s Rational Pesticide Management project portfolio and led the Biological Control Working Group of the Southern Cone Plant Health Committee (COSAVE). He has represented Embrapa on the Environmental Commission of the National Confederation of Agriculture (CNA) and on the National Executive Committee of the Sectoral Plan for a Low-Carbon Agriculture Economy (ABC+ Plan).

From 2015 to 2022, he served as General Head of Embrapa Environment, also holding deputy roles in Technology Transfer and R&D. He contributed to the creation of RenovaBio (Brazil’s National Biofuels Policy), including the development of its tools and metrics (RenovaCalc), and was involved in drafting the sustainability components of the National Fertilizer Plan.

He currently serves as Head of International Relations at Embrapa, is an advisor to the Agribusiness Superior Council of FIESP (COSAG), and, since 2022, has been a member of Brazil’s delegation to the UNFCCC climate negotiations.

On July 1, 2016, Dr. Wayne Henry assumed duties as Director General of the PIOJ. Prior to joining the PIOJ, he spent five years as Vice President, Government Affairs of the Scotiabank Group, served as Chief Technical Advisor to the Minister of Finance, as well as Special Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture. He previously worked as the World Bank Representative in Jamaica, and spent several years as a Lecturer in Economics at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus).

He is currently the Chairman of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Chairman of the National Social Protection Committee, a member of the National Disaster Risk Management Council and the National Foreign Trade Council. He is a Justice of the Peace and a Lay Pastor in the Methodist Church in Jamaica.

In August 2021, he was conferred with the Order of Distinction in the Rank of Commander (CD) by the Government of Jamaica for Outstanding Public Service in the Development of Jamaica’s Sustainable Development Policies.

Dr. Henry holds a PhD in Agricultural and Development Economics as well as an MA in Economics from the Ohio State University, an MBA (Hons) in Finance from Howard University and a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Management from the University of the West Indies. He is married to Dr. Gail Webster, an Ophthalmologist, and together they have a son, Joshua, and a daughter, Gabrielle.

Mr Harris is a Civil Engineer with over forty-five years of experience. He has worked both in the public and private sectors in the areas of design, construction and project management. His experience covers a very wide spectrum of commercial, institutional and infrastructure projects financed by all major international funding agencies, including the Caribbean Development Bank.  

He has lived and worked in Trinidad as well as Tobago and most of the OECS in various capacities as Design Engineer, Resident Engineer, Chief Technical Officer, Chief Construction Engineer, and Project Manager. He has been a member of physical planning boards and has also been involved in the adjudication of construction, land and planning disputes, in both his public and private capacity.

Since 2013 he has been based in Saint Vincent, where he was the Senior Consulting Engineer on the World Bank Regional Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project. In January 2022 he was appointed Program Manager for the CDB funded Project Implementation Management Unit. In January 2025, he was appointed the Project Manager for the Taiwanese funded USD125 million Strengthening Health System Resilience Project in Saint Vincent, which includes a 135-bed state of the art hospital. He is also the Chairperson of the steering committee for the modern city development at Arnos Vale.  

Mr Harris has a BSc in Civil Engineering (1979) from Southampton University, England; a Post Grad Diploma in Construction Engineering and Management (1983) from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and a LLB Law degree (2005) from the University of London, England.

Cavon White is a development finance professional with over 15 years of experience leading the design, appraisal, and implementation of infrastructure and social development projects across the Caribbean. At the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), he provides strategic oversight for a regional portfolio focused on sustainable infrastructure, climate resilience, and institutional performance. His expertise spans economic policy, project planning and risk analysis, results-based management, and stakeholder engagement.

Cavon plays a key role in advancing CDB’s Project Implementation Enhancement Transformation (PIET) agenda, an initiative aimed at examining implementation conditions and developing practical, country-led solutions to accelerate project delivery across Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs). The initiative seeks to strengthen institutional systems, reduce delays, and improve the development impact of CDB-financed projects.

He brings a multidisciplinary perspective shaped by advanced training in economic development, infrastructure planning, and strategic policy management.