 Professor
Rex Nettleford is well-known Caribbean scholar, trade union
educator, social and cultural historian and political analyst.
A former Rhodes Scholar, he is Vice Chancellor at the University
of the West Indies, Mona Campus. After taking an undergraduate
degree ion History at the UWI he pursued post-graduate studies
in Politics at Oxford. He is also the founder, artistic director
and principal choreographer of the internationally acclaimed
National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica and is regarded
as a leading Caribbean authority in the performing arts.
Outside of the Caribbean he has served on several international
bodies having to do with development and intercultural learning.
He was a founding governor of the Canada-based International
Development Research Centre (IRDC), and International Trustee
of the AFS Intercultural based in the USA and former Chairman
of he Commonwealth Arts Organization. He is director of the
London-based News Concern and a former member of the Executive
Board of UNESCO. He served as one of the Group of Experts
(ILO) monitoring the Implementation of Sanctions and other
Actions against Apartheid and as member of the West Indian
Commission. He is a member of the Castles and Fort Trust Fund
– Ghana (Central Region).
He has served as a consultant on cultural development to
UNESCO and OAS and Cultural Advisor to the Government of Jamaica,
and is Rappateur of the International Scientific Committee
of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project as well as Regional
Con-ordinator for the countries of he world including the
USA, Canada, UK, India, Israel and South Africa. He headed
the National Council on Education and has served on numerous
other commission in his native Jamaica.
He has edited and authored numerous publications including
“Mirror, Mirror: Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica.”
In 1992, he edited a collection of essays entitled “Jamaica
in Independence: The Early Years” and has co-edited
(with Vera Hyatt) “Race, Discourse and the Origins of
the Americas” a publication for the Smithsonian Institution.
He has numerous articles published in scholarly journals and
is also the author of major national reports on Cultural Policy,
Worker Participation, Reform of Government Structure in Jamaica
and National Symbols and National Observances.
He is the recipient of the high national honour of Order
of Merit, the Gold Musgrave Medal (from the Institute of Jamaica),
the Living Legend Award (Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, USA),
the Pelican Award (of the UWI Guild of Graduates), the Zora
Neale Hurston-Paul Robeson Award (from the National Council
for Black Studies, USA), the Pinnacle Award from the National
Coalition on Caribbean Affairs (NCOCA), the Second
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