Dr. Michelle Scobie is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of International Relations and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine and Co-Editor of the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy. She is an attorney at law with practice in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.
Her research areas include global and regional environmental governance trends and challenges, especially in relation to institutional architectures relating to climate change, tourism, sustainable development, marine governance, private governance, environmental ethics and trade and environment - particularly from the developing states’ perspective.
She has served as a Senior Economic Policy Analyst with the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and as the first Corporate Secretary of the Trinidad and Tobago Heritage and Stabilisation Fund.