Ms. Cary Anne Cadman
Caribbean Blue Economy lead, World Bank
Ms. Cadman is the Blue Economy Coordinator for the Caribbean Region assisting World Bank clients to identify viable solutions to the myriad challenges faced in ensuring sustainable use of their environmental and natural resource base. Previously, she served as Environment Sector Coordinator for the Pacific Islands and Indonesia providing technical leadership of the region and country’s multi-sectoral ocean economy, inclusive of oceanic and coastal fisheries, coastal ecosystems, nature-based tourism, marine pollution and green growth agendas as well as managing the 20-member Environment and Social Safeguards teams. Prior to that, she was the Deputy Regional Safeguards Advisor for Sub-Saharan Africa overseeing environmental and social risk mitigation and due diligence of more than 800 operations in 47 countries, including 17 Fragile States.
Ms. Cadman has worked directly in more than 33 countries, including several Fragile States, across three regions (Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean), leading regional, national and sub-national World Bank operations and high-level policy dialogue on forestry, fisheries, biodiversity, green growth, environmental risk mitigation and the blue economy. She has served on several Advisory Boards as lead strategist on blue economy and environmental risk management.