 Alister
McIntyre was born in St. Georges, Grenada and educated at
the Grenada Boys Secondary School, the London School of Economics
and Political Science, and Nuffield College, Oxford University,
in the United Kingdom.
On graduating from university, he returned to the Caribbean
and began an outstanding career as an academic, taking up
the post of lecturer in Economics at the University of the
West Indies, Mona Campus. Over the next ten years he held
posts of Senior Lecturer in Economics, Chairman, Division
of Social Sciences, St. Augustine Campus, and Director of
the Institute of Social and Economic Research(now the Sir
Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies) at
the Mona Campus. During this period, Sir Alister also held
several visiting Academic Appointments, among them Assistant
Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University in the USA, and Fulbright-Hays
Fellow at Columbia University in New York.
In 1974, Sir Alister was appointed Secretary General of CARICOM
and so began his distinguished service in the regional and
International field, spanning the years to 1987. During this
period, he also held the positions Director of Commodities
Division of UNCTAD; Deputy Secretary General of UNCTAD, both
in Geneva, Switzerland; and Assistant Secretary General at
the United Nations in New York.
In 1988, Sir Alister was appointed Vice Chancellor of the
University of the West Indies, a post which he held until
his retirement in 1998. At the request of the CARICOM Heads
of Government, he then assumed the post of Chief Technical
Advisor at the newly established Caribbean Regional Negotiating
Machinery.
Sir Alister’s Regional and International Public Service
assignments are too numerous to record on this occasion. Suffice
is to say that, as a result, he has received many honours
and awards, among them: several honorary degrees; Order of
the Caribbean Community (OCC); has been twice honoured by
the Government of Jamaica, including receipt of the order
of Merit (OM) and has also received the National Honours of
the Government of Guyana(the Cacique Crown of Honour); the
Gleaner’s Award: the Chancellor’s 50th Anniversary
Medal for Excellence, and in 1992, he was knighted by her
Majesty the Queen.
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