Professor Ian Boxill holds the Carlton Alexander Chair in Management Studies and is the Director of the Centre for Tourism and Policy Research at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. A former Chair of the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, UWI, he is also the author/editor of 8 books, over 60 academic articles and has taught at universities in New Zealand, Mexico, the USA, and intermittently at the St Augustine and Cave Hill campuses at the UWI. He has consulted with or worked for various organizations, such as the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), the Department for International Development (DFID), CARICOM, World Wide Fund for Nature, UNESCO, UNCTAD, The World Bank, The Caribbean Tourism Organization, among others. He founded and edits the IDEAZ journal and Carib Xplorer, a science magazine. He also serves as Associate Editor (Anglophone Caribbean) for the social sciences and humanities journal, Revista Mexicana del Caribe.
