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Caribbean Politics Specialist Group

Committee Members

Peter Clegg (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, and formerly a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. He teaches and publishes on the Caribbean and Latin America. Peter has had two books published, and has contributed articles to a range of journals including Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, The Round Table, Journal of International Development, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Social and Economic Studies. He has also provided advice on the Caribbean to the British and Jamaican governments, Transparency International and the OECD.

Karen Hunte is currently completing a PhD in the Department of Politics and History, at Brunel University. Her research concerns the political participation of the Caribbean population in Britain, and is largely gained from her own experience in British politics. Karen is an Executive Member of a Caribbean Diaspora Consultative Committee, a former senior local government politician, a former Candidate to the Greater London Assembly, and an Accredited Election Observer. Karen has also been interviewed on BBC News and BBC Around Westminster about party political elections.

David Jessop is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Council.

Amanda Sives (Ph.D.) is a Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool. She completed her PhD at the University of Bradford on Jamaican politics. Her main research expertise lies in the politics of the Caribbean with a particular emphasis on Jamaica. She has worked on a number of research projects in a variety of countries including Jamaica, Botswana, Guyana, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United States and the UK. Successfully completed projects have focused on election observation, political violence and migration. She has held posts in the University of Nottingham, the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her book Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica, 1944-2007 was published in 2010, and she has also published in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, The Round Table, Latin American Perspectives, Caribbean Journal of Education, and the Journal of International Development.