"Jamaican Dr Margaret Jones Williams has taken up her recent assignment as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) deputy resident representative and head of office at the UN agency's country office in Dutch-speaking Suriname.

Dr Jones Williams is a top development and environment professional with over 30 years of dedicated work straddling the private sector, civil society, academia, the public sector and with international organisations.

She has extensive experience in policy preparation and advisory services, project management and implementation, project monitoring and evaluation, environmental impact assessments, construction monitoring, lecturing and teaching, report writing and publication, as well as resource mobilisation.

Jones Williams also brings to the UN job, experience as leader of multidisciplinary teams in the areas of natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation and disaster risk reduction."

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