ELEANOR JONES, M.A. O.D. –
Position: Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerProfession: Environment and Development SpecialistExpertise: Environmental Planning and Management and Disaster Risk ReductionYears 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.