TWG INC CONSULTANCIES

TWG Inc (Consultancies) is a separate division of TWG Inc specializing in consulting services.

CONSULTANCIES IN DEVELOPMENT & DIPLOMACY – TWG-GSCDD

GSCDD specializes in assisting developing countries and organizations to achieve their best results in the conduct of their foreign policy and diplomacy as well as in related areas of international development. Services are also available to developed country think tanks/countries/organizations which deal with developing countries (Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean). Here’s what we can do for you:

• Research, assess and offer strategies for success in achieving your development and foreign policy goals.
• Advise your foreign offices on structural reform in the interest of goal maximization.
• Arrange relevant briefings, seminars, and workshops for clients from both developing and developed countries, on global south interrelations.
• Ask about tailored services.

TWG Inc (GSCDD) draws on a list of highly experienced academic and policy specialists, including diplomats.  The team is led by Dr. (Professor) Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, who has more than 40 years experience in academia as well as significant practical experience in the areas indicated.

Professor (Dr.) Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner is a decades-long specialist in global south foreign policy, diplomacy and development.

She particularly deals with small developing states (and has specific expertise in Caribbean states). In the academic sphere, Prof. Braveboy-Wagner trained in foreign policy at the graduate level at the Institute of International Relations in Trinidad and Tobago, at the time an affiliate of the Geneva Institute of International Studies, then went on to earn her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. She taught at Arizona, then at Bowling Green State University in Ohio , after which she moved to New York, teaching and administrating at both undergraduate and graduate levels at the City University of New York. She has written  or edited twelve books on foreign policy and related issues and numerous articles on foreign policy and global governance. She has presented well more than 100 papers at conferences, workshops, and seminars all around the world and has been a frequent invited keynote speaker and interviewee in the USA and abroad.

Apart from her scholarship, she is known for her leadership roles in a number of academic associations where she is credited with advancing the interests and research of  African, Asian  and Latin American scholars.

BRIDGING GLOBAL GAPS

Dr.  Braveboy-Wagner has been a fellow at, and de facto assistant to, the Director of Training of the UN Institute for Training and Research,  a Visiting Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University and consultant on Caribbean relations with Japan (having also lived in Japan), a consultant for  the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Global South Office, a consultant with various United States agencies, and has done reports for Caribbean and Latin American intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and She was an NGO representative at the UN for ten years, and has been  invited to the activities of various Washington groups since the 1980s.

Dr. Braveboy-Wagner’s close interaction with various diplomatic communities led to her appointment as Chair of a government-appointed committee to conduct a thorough strategic review of the foreign policy of Trinidad and Tobago between 2007 and 2009. Related to his effort, she chaired a committee to establish a diplomatic academy (which is in operation today) to serve that government and neighboring states.

Inter alia, Dr. Braveboy-Wagner has been honored by the Caribbean Studies Association, the International Studies Association, and the University of the West Indies, including its affiliate American Foundation.  An extensive interview with Dr. Braveboy-Wagner is archived at the Leverhulme Trust’s Women and the History of International Thought project, https://whit.web.ox.ac.uk/oral-history-archive 

Click here and Click here for some information on her papers and publications, and to access some of them, click https://researchgate.net/profile/Jacqueline-Braveboy-Wagner