Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith is a Fellow with Global Americans and the Caribbean Policy Consortium, and a Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A widely-published expert on Caribbean security, drugs, and crime, he has published numerous articles and books, the latest being Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming February 2024), and Oil and Climate Change in the Guyana-Suriname Petro Power Basin, to be released in June by Routledge.
He has testified before the U.S Congress, has been a Visiting Scholar at security institutes in the United States, Canada, and Germany, and a consultant to several governmental and international organizations. Ivelaw also has served as a professor and an academic leader for several decades, including as a Dean at Florida International University, provost at universities in Virginia and New York, president of Fort Valley State University, and Vice Chancellor (president) of the University of Guyana. He is the recipient of the Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education, named in honor of former U.S. Defense Secretary Dr. William Perry and conferred by the Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at National Defense University.