Alister McIntyre is regarded as one of the Caribbean region's most distinguished and respected economist. He has been the Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)and the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI). He has taught economics in the Department of Economics at the Mona and St Augustine Campuses of the UWI.McIntyre was also the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community and Common Market(CARICOM) Secretariat, Director of Commodities and Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTADand the Chief Technical Advisor at the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM)