Lt. Col. Michael Jones
BSc, MSc, MRBA, ED
Executive Director, IMPACS
Lt. Col. Michael Jones joined CARICOM IMPACS in March 2009 as the Deputy Director of the Joint Regional Communications Centre (JRCC) and was promoted to Director the following year in 2010.
On the retirement of the previous Executive Director, he was granted permission to act in that capacity in January 2018 while maintaining his substantive duties as Chief Operations Officer (COO), Border Security at the JRCC based in Barbados. He was confirmed as Executive Director in March 2021.
A national of Barbados, he holds a baccalaureate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and an MSc in Project Management and Evaluation, both from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus and a Master of Research, Business Administration from the University of Liverpool.
He has been a serving member of the Barbados Defence Force as a Commissioned Officer (Reserves) for the last 27 years and served as the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee for the Force up until June 2023.
He previously taught in the areas of Information Systems and Computer Applications for the Business Management Studies Department and currently serves as a member of the inaugural Advisory Committee of the Centre for Biosecurity Studies at Cave Hill Campus.
Under his tenure of leadership, a strategic plan has been developed to guide the transformation of the organisation which has, in accordance with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 16 and17 in particular, adopted the motto of “Mutual Security through Partnerships”.