Damien King is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica campus. He has published in the areas of sovereign debt, economic modeling, and international trade. He is the author and editor (with David Tennant) of Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States, (Palgrave, New York). Damien earned a B.A. from York University, Canada, an M.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, and a Ph.D. from New York University, USA.