Selwin Hart
Mr. Selwin Hart is the Director of the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Change Support Team (CCST). Mr. Hart has responsibility for providing overall supervision and guidance to the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team on climate change related issues relevant for the implementation of the Secretary-General’s second-term Five-Year Action Agenda.
Prior to joining the United Nations Mr. Hart served as the Climate Finance Advisor in the Office of the Vice-President (Operations) of the Caribbean Development Bank. His duties included assisting with the positioning of the CDB to participate in the emerging international climate change financing architecture and mobilizing resources to support the Bank’s interventions in areas of development assistance.
Mr. Hart has served as a Senior Foreign Service Officer in the Barbados Foreign Service and Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations, where he was responsible for Economic and Financial Affairs. Mr. Hart also served as the Chief Climate Change Negotiator for Barbados as well as the Coordinator and Lead Negotiator on Finance for the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS), a coalition of 43 Islands and low-lying coastal states in the Caribbean, Pacific, Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. He was a member of the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund Board from 2009 to 2010 and was elected by the UN General Assembly to serve as Vice-Chairman of the 2nd Committee of the UNGA (Economic and Financial) during its 60th Session.
Mr. Hart holds a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Economics and Accounting, from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados and a Master of Arts Degree in International Political Economy (specialization in International Economics), from Fordham University in New York. He was also the recipient of an Organization of American States (OAS) fellowship to Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where he completed a post-graduate certificate in Trade Planning and Strategic Management in 1995.
Prior to joining the United Nations Mr. Hart served as the Climate Finance Advisor in the Office of the Vice-President (Operations) of the Caribbean Development Bank. His duties included assisting with the positioning of the CDB to participate in the emerging international climate change financing architecture and mobilizing resources to support the Bank’s interventions in areas of development assistance.
Mr. Hart has served as a Senior Foreign Service Officer in the Barbados Foreign Service and Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations, where he was responsible for Economic and Financial Affairs. Mr. Hart also served as the Chief Climate Change Negotiator for Barbados as well as the Coordinator and Lead Negotiator on Finance for the Alliance of Small Island Developing States (AOSIS), a coalition of 43 Islands and low-lying coastal states in the Caribbean, Pacific, Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. He was a member of the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund Board from 2009 to 2010 and was elected by the UN General Assembly to serve as Vice-Chairman of the 2nd Committee of the UNGA (Economic and Financial) during its 60th Session.
Mr. Hart holds a Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Economics and Accounting, from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados and a Master of Arts Degree in International Political Economy (specialization in International Economics), from Fordham University in New York. He was also the recipient of an Organization of American States (OAS) fellowship to Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where he completed a post-graduate certificate in Trade Planning and Strategic Management in 1995.
