Professor Michelle Mycoo is the Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning (McGill University), a M.Sc. in Urban Planning (University of Hong Kong) and a B.A. in Geography and Social Sciences (The University of the West Indies, Mona). Professor Mycoo serves on several global bodies. She is a Coordinating Lead Author of the Small Islands Chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, Working Group II. She also serves as a member of the International Science Council, the Scientific Advisory Committee of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations, Future Earth Coasts, and the United Nations Habitat University Partnership Initiative. 

She has received commissions for expert input on urban planning, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation from the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations, the European Union, the Caribbean Development Bank and several Caribbean governments. Professionally, Professor Mycoo has 31 years’ experience as an Urban and Regional Planner. Before joining academia, she was a Chartered Town Planner of the UK Royal Town Planning Institute and worked at the Town and Country Planning Division of Trinidad and Tobago, the Urban Division of the World Bank, Washington D.C. USA and as a private consultant on national and regional  projects. Professor Mycoo’s work focuses on strengthening the interface between science, policy, and practice in alignment with optimum land use, infrastructure provision, environmental management and climate change adaptation in support of sustainable human settlements. Professor Mycoo was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies for several years. She is the co-author of the book “A Blue Urban Agenda: Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Cities of Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States”. In recognition of her outstanding research and public service, she received the Vice Chancellor’s Award for All Round Excellence: Research and Public Service.