Alister McIntyre

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Sir Meredith Alister McIntyre OCC OM (born March 29, 1932 in Grenada (according to other sources 1930), † April 20, 2019 ) was a diplomat from Grenada and between 1974 and 1977 Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Life

McIntyre studied after school at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of Oxford .

He later became a member of the CARICOM secretariat, before he succeeded William Demas as its general secretary in 1974 and held this office until 1977.

He then joined the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1977 and was initially director of the raw materials department. He later became Deputy Secretary General and was briefly Acting Secretary General in 1985 after the end of Gamani Corea's tenure .

McIntyre was then Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies from 1988 to 1998 .

After retiring from UNCTAD, he was also Assistant to the Secretary General of the United Nations and Director General of the UN Department for Development and Economic Cooperation. Later he was still chief technical advisor for regional negotiation planning in the Caribbean in Jamaica as well as special representative of the UN Secretary General in the border conflict between Guyana and Venezuela .

McIntyre was also chairman of the Commonwealth of Nations Expert Group on a New International Economic Order and also worked for the International Debt and Development Forum. He was also a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Organization of American States (OAS) Independent Expert Group on Small Business and Integration in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1994 he received the Order of the Caribbean Community and the Jamaican Order of Merit for his services .

Web links

  • Biography: Alister McIntyre. In: United Nations Intelectual History Project (UNIHP). (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b St Kitts and Nevis Opposition Leader pays tribute to Sir Alister McIntyre. sknpulse, April 25, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Alister McIntyre. In: United Nations Intelectual History Project (UNIHP). Retrieved May 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jamaican Order of Merit (OM) ( Memento from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME McIntyre, Alister
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McIntyre, Meredith Alister
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grenadian diplomat and politician (CARICOM)
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenada
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2019
Place of death Jamaica