About

Before re-training as a barrister and attorney-at-law, Dr. Poppen worked in both the private and public sector where he covered a diverse range of portfolios including issues of institutional strengthening, organizational development, good governance and public sector accountability.  As the British Council’s Director Partnerships Caribbean, Dr. Poppen’s responsibilities included resource mobilization and business development across the region including managing the Council’s corporate relations with international donors, Third Sector partners as well as multilateral development organisations. In his role, he focused primarily on the area of skills development and education, civil society as well as on the issues of citizen security and access to justice.  In his previous position as Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Trinidad and Tobago, he was responsible for managing the agency’s democratic governance project portfolio covering a broad range of development interventions including parliamentary modernization, nation-building and constitutional transition (in the Dutch Caribbean), anti-corruption as well as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Trinidad and Tobago.  Dr. Poppen has also worked as a management consultant for advisory services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, has lectured on issues of corporate sustainability at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, provided political analysis for London-based risk forecaster Exclusive Analysis (today IHS Global) and reported freelance from the Caribbean for the BBC World Service and the Associated Press.