Author: John Edward Greene
Alternate names: J E. Greene; J. E. Greene; Greene, J E.; Greene, J. E.; Greene, J. Edward
Bio: **John Edward Greene** 

John Edward Greene or Eddie Greene (as he likes to be known) is a Guyanese who went to London University in England to read Economics in which he gained his Bachelor of Science.

By 1966 Eddie had finished his Master of Art's degree in Political Science at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) with his study on the "Stress" upon the Political System of Guyanese society in his 105 page thesis entitled *"Impediments to Unity in The Politics of Guyana: An Application of Partial Allocative Theories of Inputs"*.

The schism in Guyanese, society and the fluctuating relationship between race and electoral politics are the subject of John's continued 1968-1969 investigation into the Guyanese political culture in which he even considered the question of the desirability of Guyana joining the CARIFTA when he wrote "Race vs. politics in Guyana: political cleavages and political mobilisation in the 1968 general election".

He gained his Doctorate of Philosophy in International Economic Relations from the University of British Columbia.

While in Jamaica between 1987 and 1995 Eddie had been a member of Advocacy Council for Human Rights (ACHR) as well as being appointed full Professor at the UWI Campus, Jamaica (1989) and became Pro-Vice Chancellor with responsibility for Development and Alumni Affairs (1989-1993).

Between 1984 and 2004 he had been director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of the West Indies (Mona) in which he became the first Professorial Fellow (1993).

In his 1990 collaborative work with Bryan and Shaw in the work entitled *"Peace, Development, and Security in the Caribbean"*, John aspires to draw a bead on the future in terms of geopolitics, development problems, and adjustment strategies of small states.

From 2003 to 2010 Eddie was Assistant Secretary-General of Human and Social Development for the Deputy Regional Authorising Officer for SIRHASC and Deputy Secretary General of Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Eddie was Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies. In  April 2011 he received the *'Sir Phillip Sherlock'* award and since November the same year serves as the CARICOM/PAHO Advisor on the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA).  He was responsible for the Human and Social Development Directorate of CARICOM for ten years and has been instrumental in the launching and implementation of the CARICOM Task Force on Crime and Security.


**Publications**

 - *"Political perspectives on the assimilation of immigrants: a case study of West Indians in Vancouner"*, Sept. 1970
 - *"Race and Politics in Guyana"*, Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1974
 - *"The Politics of Economic Planning in Guyana"*, in Issues of Public Policy and Public Administration in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 186-203, June 1974
 - *"National primary socio-economic data structures: Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago"*, Paris: UNESCO, 1981
 - with E. Brodbe, *"Reggae and cultural identity in Jamaica"*, 1981
 - *"Cooperativism, Militarism, Party Politics, and Democracy in Guyana"*, in P. Henry & C. Stone, eds., *"The Newer Caribbean"*, Philadelphia, PA: The Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1983
 - with A. Bryan and T. Shaw, eds., *"Peace, Development and Security in the Caribbean"*, 1990
 - with J. R. Beruff & J. P. Figueroa, eds., *"Conflict, Peace and Development in the Caribbean"*, 1991
 - with D. Villanueva, *"Private Investments in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis"*, IMF Staff Papers, pp.35-58, March 1991
 - *"Facing the Future of the Caribbean as Realists"*, Mershon International Studies Review Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 138-140,  April 1994
 - *“Reconfiguring Human Resources development in the Caribbean: Beyond the Global Marketplace,”* Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 69-90, 2007

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**Sources**

> 1. Green, John Edward, *"Impediments to Unity in The Politics of Guyana: An Application of Partial Allocative Theories of Inputs"* (1966). Dissertations and Thesis Paper 4895.