David Jessop

Rachel Collie
Consultant and Editor, Caribbean Insight and Cuba Briefing
Mr Jessop has an influential weekly syndicated and electronically circulated column called the View from Europe that appears in leading newspapers in Trinidad, Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Belize, St Lucia, the Dominican Republic, and elsewhere in the region, and in North America and Europe. His column addresses a wide range of international and hemispheric issues. He also writes a column called the Business of Tourism on Caribbean tourism matters that is widely published in the region.
In 1998 he was awarded the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to Anglo-Caribbean relations, in 2009 the Order of Distinction (Commander Class) by the Government of Jamaica, and in 2012 made a commander of the order of Christopher Columbus by the Government of the Dominican Republic.
david.jessop@caribbean-council.org
Cell +44 7768 825103