Courtney Lindsay, Ph.D.

Courtney is a Researcher and Project Manager with 11 years of combined experience working within international development organizations and research think tanks. He spent the majority of this time designing, executing, and managing private sector development projects across the English-speaking Caribbean, but now works exclusively in a research capacity.

Courtney’s research interests lie broadly in the political economy of development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). These include trade and industrial policy in SIDS; micro-, small- and medium-enterprise development and private sector competitiveness; small states' strategies for norm entrepreneurship and norm advocacy; and resilience, sustainability and climate change adaptation in SIDS.

Courtney holds a PhD from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus. His dissertation focused on small states and policy space in global trade politics, where he examined how small, upper-middle to high-income developing countries respond to policy space constraints at the World Trade Organization (WTO).