Alicia Valasse-Polius is a St. Lucian writer, ESL/EFL tutor and educational technologist. Her work has been widely published in anthologies, journals and magazines such as The Caribbean Writer, Cordite Poetry Review, Moko Magazine, Poui Journal of Creative Writing, among others. Valasse-Polius was shortlisted for the 2015 Small Axe Poetry Prize and awarded the 2016 Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for Best Short Fiction. She is currently a doctoral student at The University of the West Indies.

Dr Barry Murrer is a distinguished industrial scientist having recently completed a 35-year career at the FTSE-100 company Johnson Matthey in the UK. During this period, he led the development and commercialisation of a range of technologies across the company’s portfolio, including novel catalysts, nanomaterials, sorbents and FDA-approved platinum-based drugs.

Dr Murrer joined the TSL Board of Trustees in September 2017.

 

Global environmental activist, peace advocate, youth speaker, award winning social enterprise innovator, author , winner of the International Children’s Peace Prize , a L’Oreal Paris Women of Worth Honouree and Canada’s Top25 Women of Influence awardee, 19 year old youth icon Kehkashan Basu, has been impacting the global fraternity with her work on children’s rights, promoting gender equality, mitigating climate change and social upliftment. A United Nations Human Rights Champion and a National Geographic Explorer, Kehkashan is the Founder President of social innovation enterprise, Green Hope Foundation which has 2,038 youth ambassadors working in 15 countries.

 

Saheed Opeyemi Adebisi is an Academics and Research Faculty Member at Osun State University, Nigeria focusing on Plant Biodiversity (Protection and Conservation), Molecular Genetics (Marker-assisted Assessment and Phylogeography) and Sustainable Development (Climate Change and Environment).

He has worked internationally since 2015 in the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN-SDSN), a network of global universities under the renowned Professor Dr Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University, USA. He has worked with other country and regional managers from over 21 countries across the global southern and northern regions on multilateral, collaborative and trans-disciplinary projects and assignments.

 

Shane Emilie is currently serving as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Island Conservation Society, a not-for-profit environmental NGO involved in the promotion, protection, rehabilitation, and sustainable development of island ecosystems in Seychelles.  He has over 15 years’ experience in education, program and project management, formerly serving as the Program Coordinator for Education for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals in Seychelles.  He holds a Master’s degree in Education for Sustainability and a Dual Masters in Business Administration and Global Project Management. Shane has authored a number of publications on sustainability themes, worked as a consultant for several projects, and also developed a sustainability program for the Indian Ocean region. He has a particular interest in sustainable development, organisational transformation, and strengthening partnerships for a more sustainable future.