Professor Suzette Haughton

Professor Suzette A. Haughton is a fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium.  She was a former United Kingdom Commonwealth Scholar and a recipient of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada (DFAIT) fellowship to undertake post-doctoral training at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), University of Toronto.  This Fellowship was undertaken through the programme on ‘Capacity Building of National Authorities to Monitor and Analyse the Impact of Illicit Drugs in the Americas’.  

Professor Haughton has published extensively on security threats affecting the Caribbean region, borders and border security. She is also an alumni of the Willian J. Perry  Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, Washington, DC.  

She  received her Diploma in Education (Business Studies and Computing) from the University of Technology Jamaica (UTECH), BSc International Relations and MSc Government from the University of the West Indies, Mona campus and her PhD from the Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London.

She supervises a wide-range of International Relations and Security Studies topics.  She is interested to supervise additional PhD projects on security threats, warfare, drug trafficking problem, border relations and border security.