Programme Officer with the Ecosystems Division of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Christopher Corbin is a Programme Officer with the Ecosystems Division of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He has been based at the Secretariat for the Cartagena Convention in Kingston, Jamaica, which covers all the countries of the Wider Caribbean Region since 2004. Chris is responsible for the Secretariat’s Marine Pollution and Communications Sub-Programmes and also currently serving as Officer in Charge and Interim Coordinator of the Secretariat. Chris, a Saint Lucian national, has over 30 years of national and regional programme and project management experience. He has been involved in the development and implementation of multi-country projects on wastewater management, solid waste management and integrated coastal zone and watershed management. He has coordinated several GEF funded International Waters Projects and activities aimed at improving Governance of the Caribbean Sea and specifically has facilitated the development of a Regional Marine Litter Action Plan and Strategy, a Regional Nutrients Pollution Reduction Strategy and the region’s first “State of Convention Area Report on Marine Pollution”.