Norris Prevost (E.One.Caribbean team leader) has been a member of parliament of the Commonwealth of Dominica for the past sixteen years. He was minister of tourism from 1995-2000, during which time he served as director of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and led the establishment within the CTO of the CTO Committee for Sustainable Tourism. In his home country, he also led enlistment of the Trois Pitons National Park of Dominica as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Prevost earned his bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of the West Indies in 1969 and 1994 respectively. He has been an entrepreneur from the time he left high school and has led the creation, development, operation and management of several business enterprises in the areas of agricultural production and marketing, real estate development, garment manufacturing, and international commodity trading. He has also been a leader in the nonprofit sector in Dominica and is the founder and Patron of the Roseau Improvement Committee Inc (RIC Inc) and the Roseau Botanic Gardens Society Inc. Prevost completed the Mason Fellows MPA/Midcareer program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in the summer of 2007. His objective in the program was to expand his knowledge of the social enterprise and nonprofit sectors, with the aim of changing globalization from poverty for most of the Caribbean people to prosperity for all. Biographical information provided courtesy of the Center for International Development at Harvard University.

Craig Hastings (E.One.Caribbean program officer) is LASPAU's associate director for programs, overseeing LASPAU’s Program Office, including the implementation of programs and client relations with program sponsors. He also serves as a program officer for the Caribbean and Venezuela and thus has been traveling to the region to meet with institutions of higher education, government ministries, and non-governmental organizations in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela for over ten years. Hastings graduated magna cum laude from Clark University with a B.A. in French and Spanish and a concentration in international relations, and received his Ed.M. in administration, planning, and social policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Prior to his current position, Hastings was a senior program officer for initiatives sponsored by organizations such as the Fulbright Program, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Organization of American States, a program officer for LASPAU-administered Fulbright Program initiatives, a program officer for the Venezuelan FUNDAYACUCHO program, and a program officer and program advisor for the Galileo program. Before joining LASPAU in 1992, Hastings was a regional manager at EF Foundation, an international student exchange organization.

LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas (E.One.Caribbean partner organization) is a nonprofit organization affiliated with Harvard University and governed by an independent, inter-American board of trustees. The organization began in 1964 as a cooperative enterprise between the Ford Foundation, ICETEX, and Harvard University to enable talented Colombian high school students to obtain bachelor’s degrees in the United States. Over the following two decades, LASPAU’s activities grew to involve all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, a wide variety of funding agencies, university partners throughout the world, and graduate, nondegree, and sponsored research programs ranging from faculty development to environmental sustainability. LASPAU now has over four decades of successful experience working directly with individuals and institutions in the Americas and its staff members offer extensive linguistic, cultural, educational, and practical experience in the region. LASPAU believes in universal and equitable access to high-quality educational opportunities and is committed to expanding the ability of individuals, institutions, and societies to achieve their highest potential through education.