H.E. The Most Honorable Ambassador Elizabeth Thompson

Her Excellency The Most Honourable H. Elizabeth Thompson is

Barbados’ Ambassador for Climate Change, Small Island Developing

States and Law of the Sea. She was appointed as Prime Minister Mia

Amor Mo ley’s Sherpa to the CVF-V20. She also serves as the Deputy

President of the Senate of Barbados.

Ambassador Thompson served as a Minister of Government from 1994

2008, over that period, she at various mes held por olios of Health,

Physical Development and Planning, Housing and Lands, Energy, and

Environment. In these por olios she introduced numerous

groundbreaking social and developmental policies to Barbados.

Liz Thompson has also held a number of roles in the United Na ons,

including Assistant Secretary General and Execu ve Coordinator for the

Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, Advisor to the

Secretary General and to the President of the General Assembly. In 2018,

she was appointed as the Permanent Representa ve of Barbados to the

UN. She has worked across the areas of sustainable development in

many different roles for three decades.

Ambassador Thompson is an a orney-at-law, and holds and LLB, LLM,

MBA and is the author of numerous papers on development issues and

three books. In 2008, she was awarded the UN’s pres gious ‘Champion

of the Earth Award’ and in 2024, she was given Barbados’ highest

honour, ‘The Order of Freedom of Barbados.’