ELEANOR JONES, M.A. O.D. –
Position: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Profession: Environment and Development Specialist
Expertise: Environmental Planning and Management and Disaster Risk Reduction
Years with the firm: 32 (Founding Member)
Quote: “Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off
his left.”
Eleanor Jones is an International Environmental Risk Management and Development
professional with significant experience in the fields of environmental and social safeguards;
disaster risk management; climate resilience building; and sustainable development. She has
worked for over 50 year in academia applied research, consulting, results-based management
processes, and civil society activities and has her expertise in every CARIFORUM country, the
non-independent states of the Caribbean, The Maldives in South Asia, Switzerland, Canada,
USA, and West Africa. She has provided consultancies to regional and international
development agencies such as the IADB, EU, World Bank, UNDP, USAID, JICA, CIDA/Global
Affairs Canada and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
Mrs. Jones has served on several Boards both locally and internationally and has been widely
recognized through several awards for her work in environmental risk management systems,
and with civil society. Some notable awards include, the CCRP Living Legacy Award for
Environmental Protection and Development, awarded in 2022, the Order of Distinction (OD),
for her contribution to the Development of Environmental Management and to Civic
Development conferred by the Government of Jamaica in 2018 , and a Bronze Musgrave Medal
from the Institute of Jamaica for distinction in the field of Science in 2017.
She holds a Master of Arts (MA from the University of Wisconsin and currently serves as
Chairman and CEO of Environmental Solutions Ltd. (ESL), and President, ESL Management
Solutions Ltd, private sector environmental engineering and management services companies
which she co-founded and has steered from inception.