The University of the West Indies (UWI), has learnt with regret of the passing of Mr. Gordon Draper, Alister McIntyre Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Mona School of Business who died on Wednesday, August 11 in London after falling ill.
Gordon Draper, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, was also a Director of International Development of the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM). His activities at UWI included research on governance and public sector management and lecturing in graduate programmes in Public Sector Management, Human Resource Management and Organisational Development and Change. His CAPAM involvement included designing and delivering workshops for senior public service managers in Commonwealth countries. Over the last five years Mr. Draper has done training or consulting work in Public Sector management in over 25 countries.
Mr. Draper was returning from the Senior Public Service Management Workshop for Senior Government Officials sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat and held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa August 2 to 6. He had presented a paper at the workshop on The Future of the Public Service and Leadership Development for Public Service and was attending the workshop on behalf of CAPAM.
The funeral service for Gordon Draper will be held on Thursday, August 19 in Trinidad and Tobago. The University extends sincerest condolences to his wife Chela and his three daughters.