Jessica Byron, convener from the Caribbean, is a citizen of St. Kitts and Nevis and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica. Her undergraduate and initial postgraduate training was done at UWI, Cave Hill and St. Augustine campuses. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Before coming to lecture at UWI Mona in 1994, she lectured at the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, and before that she worked as a diplomat for her own country and for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. She has also been a visiting lecturer at the Université des Antilles-Guyane in Guadeloupe and at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in San Andres, Colombia. Her research interests include hemispheric and regional integration, European-Caribbean relations, small states and the multilateral system. She is a member of the Junta Ejecutiva of CRIES, a Steering Committee member of the Globalization Studies Network, a member of the Caribbean Studies Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the International Studies Association. She serves on the International Advisory Committees and/or Editorial Committees of a number of international journals. She is currently a member of the UWI Board of Undergraduate Studies for 2006-8. She is also the Coordinator for the Graduate Programmes in the Department of Government, UWI, Mona.