Diana McCaulay is a Jamaican writer and environmental activist. She was educated at St. Andrew High School and the University of the West Indies (UWI). She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies and she is a Chartered Insurer qualified by the Chartered Insurance Institute in the United Kingdom. In 2000, Diana was awarded a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship at the University of Washington in the US. She then completed a Master’s Degree in Public Administration (MPA) at the University of Washington with a major in environmental policy and international development.
Diana worked in the general insurance industry for eighteen years in various senior management positions. After becoming concerned about environmental issues, she founded the Jamaica Environment Trust in 19991 and initially worked with the Trust as a volunteer. At the end of 1998, she left the private sector and joined the Jamaica Environment Trust as full-time Chief Executive Officer.
Diana was past Chair of the National Environmental Societies Trust, an umbrella organization of environmental groups and past Chair of the National Environmental Education Committee. She has served as a Board member of the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica, a local funding agency, and has been a member of the Board of the Natural Resources Conservation Authority. She was awarded the Euan P. McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award for the Caribbean in 2006 and a Bronze Musgrave Medal for her environmental work in 2009. She contributed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
She was a weekly columnist for the Gleaner newspaper from 1994-2001, writing on environmental, gender and social issues. Her short stories have been published in the journal The Caribbean Writer and her first novel, Dog-Heart, was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2010.
