Ms. Judi Clarke is a specialist in climate change adaptation, stakeholder dialogue, communications and facilitation and LAC regional project implementation.  She has over sixteen years of experience in the Caribbean region as an environmental management professional and climate change adaptation specialist and served as the Caribbean Regional Director of CARIBSAVE from July 2010 – July 2016. She has experience as a senior, technical researcher and climate communications specialist having also worked as a consultant for the CARICOM Secretariat, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), other regional agencies and national governments on projects within small Island Developing States. Her research skill set includes primary and secondary research such as stakeholder consultations, surveys, geophysical data collection and statistical socio-economic analyses. Her communications specialties include engaging with audiences across scientific and non-scientific backgrounds through various media such as conference presentations, written reports, and formal and informal meetings, “how-to” guides, targeted knowledge products and evaluations of social and environmental adaptation interventions.

Her involvement in discussions on climate change issues have been at regional as well as international forums. Judi specialises in multi-stakeholder engagement and has worked with country risk management practitioners in developing and implementing decision making processes; developing feasible policy options and implementation measures for adaptation to climate change at local, national and regional levels.  Judi has been specifically involved in the development of risk management and environmental impact assessment guidelines for key sectors that include climate change considerations.

Several of the projects which Judi has managed and provided technical input to have been directed towards reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to climate change in communities in Caribbean countries in terms of livelihoods, natural resources and the built environment. In bringing the relevant actors together in discussion on the challenges and opportunities related to the disaster risk management, she has facilitated several, participatory stakeholder workshops at national, local and regional levels across the Caribbean with senior government officials, community representatives and private sector.