E. Crispin d’Auvergne

E. Crispin d’Auvergne is the Inaugural Executive Director of the Caribbean Cooperative Measurement, Reporting and Verification Hub (MRV Hub). He has worked in the climate change field for over twenty-five years. He most recently served as the Programme Director for Climate & Disaster Resilience at the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). At the OECS, he focused on Adaptation & Resilience and Mitigation issues and was instrumental in the conceptualization and establishment of both the Caribbean NDC Finance Initiative (NDCFI) and its subsidiary initiative, the Eastern Caribbean Solar Challenge.

Prior to that, he worked for several years with the Government of Saint Lucia in the areas of Fisheries, Natural Resources, Environment, Ocean Governance, Energy and Climate Change, with his final position being that of Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer. In that position, he also served as his country’s lead technical negotiator on Climate Change.

As a negotiator, he covered (and often facilitated) a number of issues, most notably: Adaptation; Public Education; Awareness; Capacity-building and Response Measures, and served as one of the first SIDS representatives on the Paris Committee for Capacity-Building (PCCB).

Crispin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Development Studies (Natural Resource Management) from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a Master’s degree in Natural Resource Management (Climate Change) from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.