Dr. Leith Dunn, a Jamaican Sociologist and Gender Specialist, graduated from the University of the West Indies Mona (BA, MSc) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.)
She worked with the UN, Commonwealth and is former Head of the UWI IGDS Mona Campus.
Her policy research/publications and teaching, have focused on gender mainstreaming: in the household, trade and economic development, the care economy, child labour, human trafficking, migration, climate change and disasters. She has received several awards for her work on gender and development from international regional and national institutions. In 2019 APolitical.com naming her among the 100 most influential persons globally promoting gender equality and gender policies.
