Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster

Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster is a Guyanese-Barbadian environmental, energy & human rights lawyer, academic and natural resources specialist. She currently works as a Lecturer in International Environmental & Energy Law, and the inaugural Head of the Environmental Law, Ocean Governance & Climate Justice Unit of the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. Alana is also a Researcher with the UKRI GCRF-funded One Ocean Hub and serves as the Regional Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment for the Caribbean Region. She is a Member of the International Law Association Caribbean Branch and currently serves on the Branch’s Executive and is also a Member of the International Society of Public Law, Caribbean Chapter. Commencing her career in the conservation, management and regulation of natural resources, Alana held the post of Director of the Environmental Management Division (EMD) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Guyana, and subsequently trained as a marine & environmental lawyer, after which she embarked on a career in academia. Alana contributes to the work of international bodies, courts and the work of the U.N. Special Rapporteurs on human rights and climate change, the right to a healthy environment and human rights defenders, and the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (REDESCA). Regionally, Alana also works with the Barbados Delegation of the intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment and sits on the Legal & Policy Committee developing Barbados’ National Ocean Policy and Marine Spatial Plan as part of their blue bonds for ocean conservation and debt for nature and debt for climate conversion.