Cordel Green is an Attorney-at-Law, former Assistant Attorney-General of Jamaica, former broadcaster, and the long-serving Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission. His fingerprints can be found on consequential policy documents, including the inter-governmental negotiations that led to the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI.
He has held prominent international roles, including Vice-Chair of UNESCO’s Information For All Programme (IFAP) and Advisory Board Member of the Carnegie AI and Equality Initiative. He is currently Chairman of UNESCO IFAP’s Working Group on Information Accessibility, where he initiated and leads the annual Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) Global Conference, held on September 28 to mark the International Day for Universal Access to Information.
Mr. Green’s affiliations include serving as Chairman of Jamaica’s Regulatory and Technical Committee for Digital Television Switch-Over (DSO); Chairman of the Caribbean Training and Education Centre for Health (C-TECH); Member of the Jamaican and Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) AI Task Forces; Member of the IEEE P2863 Working Group on Organizational Governance of Artificial Intelligence; Advisory Board Member of the Society for Scientific Advancement (SoSA); participant in the EU-LAC Working Groups on Digital Transformation and Ethics of AI in Latin America and the Caribbean; and Chancellor’s appointee on the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the University of the West Indies, where he was once President of the Guild of Students.
He holds Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) degrees from the University of the West Indies, a Master of Laws with distinction from the University of Sheffield, and an MBA from the Mona School of Business. He is also a Chevening Scholar, alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Programme, and a Blockchain Council certified metaverse expert.
He is married to the Honourable Mrs Justice Marcia Dunbar Green, Judge of the Jamaican Court of Appeal.
