Alexander Ramdass
Alexander is an Attorney at Law licensed to practice in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. He possesses an LLM from the University of the West Indies in Legislative Drafting and is presently pursuing an LLM in Environmental, Natural Resources and Energy Law at the Lewis and Clark Law School in Oregon. Prior to beginning LLM studies, Alexander was the Jim Rubin International Fellow at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) where he contributed to the preparation of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Report on the Environmental Rule of Law and conducted independent research on the extractive sector in Trinidad and Tobago. His career began as legal counsel at Fishermen and Friends of the Sea where he coordinated several strategic litigations and participated in the stakeholder review of several environmental laws regionally. Presently, he is the external legislative drafting and environmental law consultant at the Guyanese firm Persaud, Goopeesingh and Co. and collaborates with the Shridath Ramphal Research Centre at the University of the West Indies Cavehill Campus on their various climate change research initiatives.