Callixtus Joseph serves as the Regional Crime and Security Strategy Coordinator at the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS). His main responsibilities include designing and crafting of crime and security strategies and policies, advising on crime and security issues and providing technical support to CARICOM Member States, as well as cooperating and supporting agencies.

Mr. Joseph is also an expert resource facilitator for the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA), as part of the EU Outreach programme on Export Control of Conventional Arms (COARM) since 2015.

From 2010 – 2013, he served as an advisor and member of the CARICOM Diplomatic Team during the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations.

In March 2017, he served as a member of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) Assessment delegation to Jamaica to monitor, promote and facilitate Jamaica’s implementation of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001), 1624 (2005) and 2178 (2014), 2242 (2015), and 2322 (2016), and other relevant United Nations resolutions and instruments related to terrorism, as well as to identify Jamaica’s related technical assistance needs and good practices.

Mr. Joseph is the lead author of the CARICOM Counter-Terrorism Strategy, which was adopted by the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government in February 2018. He is also the lead author of the CARICOM Crime and Security Strategy, which was adopted by the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government in February 2013. He has contributed to several cooperation agreements and arrangements between CARICOM IMPACS and other supporting and cooperating agencies.

Mr. Joseph is credited for advancing a proposal for the establishment of a Standing Committee of Heads of Corrections and Prison Services (HCPS) as a formal component of the CARICOM Management Framework for Crime and Security, which was endorsed by the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) in 2015.

He has participated in numerous regional and international conferences, and on several panels on: international and regional security, transnational organized crime, terrorism, arms control, peace and security, drugs policies, tourism security, major event security,  security of small states and other related issues hosted by international agencies, including the United Nations, Organization of American States, Inter-American Defense Board and other inter-governmental organizations, governments and academia.  

Mr. Joseph also lectured on International Security at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago from 2008 – 2010.

Callixtus Joseph serves as the Regional Crime and Security Strategy Coordinator at the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS). His main responsibilities include designing and crafting of crime and security strategies and policies, advising on crime and security issues and providing technical support to CARICOM Member States, as well as cooperating and supporting agencies.

Mr. Joseph is also an expert resource facilitator for the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA), as part of the EU Outreach programme on Export Control of Conventional Arms (COARM) since 2015.

From 2010 – 2013, he served as an advisor and member of the CARICOM Diplomatic Team during the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations.

In March 2017, he served as a member of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) Assessment delegation to Jamaica to monitor, promote and facilitate Jamaica’s implementation of Security Council resolutions 1373 (2001), 1624 (2005) and 2178 (2014), 2242 (2015), and 2322 (2016), and other relevant United Nations resolutions and instruments related to terrorism, as well as to identify Jamaica’s related technical assistance needs and good practices.

Mr. Joseph is the lead author of the CARICOM Counter-Terrorism Strategy, which was adopted by the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government in February 2018. He is also the lead author of the CARICOM Crime and Security Strategy, which was adopted by the CARICOM Conference of Heads of Government in February 2013. He has contributed to several cooperation agreements and arrangements between CARICOM IMPACS and other supporting and cooperating agencies.

Mr. Joseph is credited for advancing a proposal for the establishment of a Standing Committee of Heads of Corrections and Prison Services (HCPS) as a formal component of the CARICOM Management Framework for Crime and Security, which was endorsed by the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) in 2015.

He has participated in numerous regional and international conferences, and on several panels on: international and regional security, transnational organized crime, terrorism, arms control, peace and security, drugs policies, tourism security, major event security,  security of small states and other related issues hosted by international agencies, including the United Nations, Organization of American States, Inter-American Defense Board and other inter-governmental organizations, governments and academia.  

Mr. Joseph also lectured on International Security at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago from 2008 – 2010.