Judith Wedderburn, M.Sc. (International Relations), Director

Mrs. Judith Wedderburn is the recently retired Director of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, (FES) Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean, and for over 30 years, has been an advocate in the field of gender and development in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. Ms. Wedderburn was responsible for the conceptual development of education and training programmes, and the design and implementation of diverse “learning experiences”, which involved the use of conventional as well as participatory methodologies. Her main research areas and related publications include, but are not limited to: impact of the globalization process on the foreign policy of Jamaica; globalization and governance, social reproduction and unpaid work, gender and the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA); gender, trade liberalization and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy; gender and governance; gender-aware policymaking in the Caribbean; gender and trade union development in the Anglophone Caribbean; and climate change, gender & persons with disabilities in small island developing states (SIDS).