Gerard Alleng is a climate change senior specialist with the Climate Change and Sustainability Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).  Gerard joined the Bank in 2008 as a clean energy and climate change specialist and is currently coordinating climate change activities in the Caribbean region.  Prior to joining the IDB, he was a Policy Fellow with the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware (USA), where he managed projects that focused on renewable energy policy and climate change issues.  He has also worked at the University of the West Indies, Mona (Jamaica) and the Institute of Marine Affairs (Trinidad and Tobago). Gerard holds a Master's degree in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and a Master's degree in Wetlands Ecology from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.  Gerard is a Caribbean Fulbright scholar.