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Dervin Osbourne is a development practitioner, programme manager and strategic communications specialist with experience across government, non-governmental organisations and international organisations. His work focuses on coordinating development programmes and helping them achieve their intended outcomes for the people they serve. He takes an anthropological approach to his work, drawing on people’s lived experiences and the social and cultural contexts that shape how programmes are designed and implemented.

This approach has informed his work with young people on sexual and reproductive health in the Caribbean, LGBT rights and advocacy, and work with adolescents in London. He also participated in research involving displaced communities living in informal settlements in Salvador, Brazil, where his contribution focused on the gendered impacts of development activities, particularly their effects on women. These experiences underpin his attention to local context and the importance of involving people in decisions that affect their lives.

As Programme Manager for Jamaica at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Dervin supported the development of Jamaica’s proposed Framework Climate Change Bill, coordinating engagement across government and wider stakeholder groups. His climate portfolio also includes strategic communications for the Caribbean Shipping Lanes (UWI-CSL) Project, supporting Caribbean participation in international maritime decarbonisation discussions, and communications for UWI SODECO’s mangrove restoration work.

At Abt Global, Dervin combined programme implementation, stakeholder coordination and communications for USAID’s Local Health System Sustainability project in Jamaica, including work on global health security, pandemic preparedness and private-sector capacity strengthening. Earlier roles at the British High Commission included managing development funding and coordinating the Chevening Scholarship Programme in Jamaica and The Bahamas.

A Chevening Scholar and certified development project manager, Dervin holds a master’s degree in Social Development Practice from University College London and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of the West Indies. His postgraduate studies applied anthropological approaches to development practice, examining how programmes and policies respond to the experiences and priorities of the people they are intended to benefit.

Through the DASTPO Consortium, he brings together this experience in programme delivery, policy and public engagement with a people-centred approach to development.

Dr. Samantha C. Johnson is a medical doctor and healthcare business strategist with over seven years of experience. She helps organisations turn plans into action, strengthen operations and build teams that support sustainable growth.

As Chief of Staff at a healthcare investment company with regional and international investments, she advises executive leadership on strategy, operations and risk. She has built two healthcare companies from the ground up, leading recruitment, strategy and execution. Both now generate revenue in the seven- to eight-figure range in Jamaican dollars; one achieved nearly 50% revenue growth in its second year.

Her leadership experience spans business development, marketing, operations strategy and client satisfaction, alongside recruitment, team management and corporate wellness. She has trained more than 20 healthcare businesses through incubator and accelerator programmes and managed over US$100,000 in grants supporting entrepreneurship and business development.

A Chevening Scholar, Samantha holds a Master of Public Health in Public Health and Health Promotion. Her experience in emergency medicine and public health informs her approach to crisis management, decision-making and the health dimensions of environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice. She founded Margin2Centre, an advocacy and action group, and The Layman’s Doctor, an awareness brand focused on gaps in healthcare services, health systems and the needs of healthcare workers.

Within the DASTPO Consortium, she brings expertise in business strategy, operations, risk management and health-focused ESG, helping organisations develop sustainable initiatives and the teams and systems needed to deliver them.

Shannique Perry is a monitoring, evaluation and learning professional who helps organisations track progress, understand results and use evidence to improve delivery. Her experience spans national planning and community-level development, with expertise in results-based management, strategic planning, performance monitoring and reporting.

She currently serves as Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA). Previously, as Performance Management Officer for the RESEMBID Programme at Expertise France, she supported monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning across projects and the wider programme. Her work included developing performance tools and dashboards, maintaining the programme’s monitoring and evaluation platform, conducting data quality audits and strengthening implementing partners’ capacity to measure and report results.

Her earlier roles include Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Coordinator at Project STAR Jamaica and Technical Analyst at the Planning Institute of Jamaica. At the Planning Institute, she supported the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals into Jamaica’s national planning frameworks and the monitoring and evaluation of the National Development Plan.

Shannique holds a master’s degree in International Public and Development Management and a bachelor’s degree in Social Policy and Development. Within the DASTPO Consortium, she brings expertise in designing results frameworks, strengthening data collection and quality, and building teams’ monitoring and evaluation skills—helping organisations make informed decisions and demonstrate the difference their work makes.

Aundhrae Richardson is a project management professional with over 10 years of experience, including leading large-scale community and corporate social responsibility initiatives. His strengths span project planning, stakeholder engagement, logistics, risk management and programme execution—bringing people, resources and activities together to deliver practical results.

As a Foundation Officer at the JPS Foundation, he supports private-sector initiatives that connect youth development, STEM education and environmental awareness. His work includes engagement with the Foundation’s Power Up Energy Clubs, alongside participation in climate-action events and community recovery efforts. This experience brings a practical perspective on how businesses can support climate awareness, youth participation and community resilience.

Aundhrae combines structured project management with hands-on community engagement. He brings particular value to initiatives that require coordination between corporate partners, schools and communities, helping translate organisational priorities into well-planned activities and effective delivery.

Keniel Peart is an artificial intelligence researcher and software engineer working on computer vision, human motion and sensor-based understanding of human communication. He is currently a PhD Researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton.

His research spans 3D whole-body reconstruction from video, multimodal learning, radar-based human sensing and differentiable simulation. His recent work explores sign language understanding, including representations of continuous signing and technologies that could support accessible interfaces for Deaf signers. He has published and presented research at IEEE EMBC and received its NextGen Scholar Award. Alongside his research, he develops practical experimental software, including an open-source multi-sensor capture tool adopted by lab collaborators.

Keniel also contributes to computing education and student development. He has supported university-level teaching at the University of Southampton and the University of the West Indies, covering subjects including algorithms, mathematics for computing, intelligent agents and software project management, and has co-supervised student research projects.

Before his doctoral studies, he worked in software engineering and technical leadership at National Commercial Bank Jamaica. His work included lending-process automation, microservice applications and an online mortgage portal, combining production software delivery with cross-functional team leadership.

Across research, teaching and engineering, Keniel focuses on developing AI systems that are technically rigorous, useful to others and grounded in real-world needs.

As Finance & General Manager at UWI Solutions for Developing Countries (UWI SODECO), Keva Taylor Edwards leads financial and operational management, overseeing strategy, budgeting, procurement, human resources, and relationships with partners and auditors.

Keva has spearheaded finance, accounting, and project management for a portfolio of internationally funded projects, including:

• IDB Blue Carbon Restoration project in southern Clarendon, funded by the Inter-American Development Bank
• Wellcome Leap NuCORE, funded by Wellcome Leap
• EXCORE, funded by Nutriset
• METS Microbiome and METS-SLEEP, where she managed the Jamaican components of these US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded studies

Across these projects she has ensured that donor funds are managed, reported, and accounted for in line with each funder's requirements. At UWI SODECO, she has also built the organization's accounting, procurement, and HR policy frameworks and introduced real-time expenditure monitoring that strengthens accountability to partners and auditors.

Her multilateral experience also includes the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. As Finance & Accounting Specialist on the Government of Jamaica and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Public Sector Transformation programme, she established internal controls under the FAA Act, managed warrant-based cash allocation, and prepared quarterly financial management reports for both the Government and the IDB.

With 13 years of experience spanning development finance, public-sector programme management, tax advisory at KPMG Jamaica, and senior corporate finance roles, Keva holds an MSc in Taxation and a BSc in Management Studies (Accounting) from The University of the West Indies, where she graduated as valedictorian. She is currently pursuing her CPA.

Within the DASTPO Consortium, Keva brings expertise in development finance, procurement, human resources and HR policy. She supports organisations in building financial controls, procurement and people-management frameworks, and donor reporting systems that help development programmes manage resources responsibly and remain accountable to their partners.