Dr. Rahanna Juman is the Deputy Director (Ag.) at the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA); a government funded marine research institution in Trinidad and Tobago.   She holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and a Bachelor of Law from the University of London.  Dr. Juman has been conducting applied research on coastal ecosystems in Trinidad and Tobago for the past twenty (20) years.  Her work has been published in international journals and she has written a book on the wetlands of Trinidad and Tobago.  

 

Dr. Juman chaired a Cabinet appointed Steering Committee responsible for developing an Integrated Coastal Zone Management Policy Framework, Strategies and Action Plan for Trinidad and Tobago, and has been a member of the National Wetlands Committee, Buccoo Reef Management Committee and the National Environmental Assessment Task Force to investigate the December 2013 oil spill. She was a Hubert Humphrey fellow from 2010-2011, a Watson International Scholars of the Environment Fellow (2008), an American Fellow (2006) and a UNESCO/ L'OREAL Fellow (2002) and has done internship at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States.