Dylan Vernon
Ambassador of Belize to the EU,
Dylan Vernon is the Ambassador of Belize to the European Union and the Kingdom of Belgium. He is also a non-resident representative to the WTO and non-resident Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of France, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Spain. Just before this work in diplomacy, he completed PhD studies in Caribbean and Latin American Politics at the UCL-Institute of the Americas in mid 2013. However, most of his prior professional career has been in Belize. This included an active engagement in civil society organisations promoting development and good governance, a period of service with the UN Development Programme and as a lecturer at tertiary intuitions, including the University of Belize. In Brussels, as Belize’s Ambassador, he has served as pro tempore president of both the Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA) Group and the CARIFORUM Group in Brussels. He has also represented Belize and the Caribbean Region, at the board or sub-committee level, of the African, Caribbean
and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and of the Community Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Brussels.
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EU - CELAC Economic Forum - Channels for a joint future
On 11 October Bruegel together with GIGA and Real Instituto Elcano will organise a conference on relations between the EU and the Community of Latin A