Mr Campbell, a national of Grenada, holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Agriculture from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad; an M.Sc. in Agricultural Extension from the University of the West Indies; and a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from the University of Montpellier, France. Mr Campbell started his career as Research Assistant at the University of the West Indies in 1974. From 1980 to 1982, he was Research Fellow at the Institut National de Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Montpellier, France. Between 1983 and 2002, he worked as Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension of the University of the West Indies. In 1983, he became Outreach Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Windward Islands in the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Extension Project that was supported by the Ministries of Agriculture and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI). Subsequently, in 2003 and 2004, he was Manager of a 500-acre farm producing organic bananas and rum. Since 2004, he has worked as an independent consultant while being manager of his own private farm. Mr Campbell was also Chairman of the Windward Islands Banana Development and Exporting Company and the Grenada Marketing and National Importing Board. Mr Campbell succeeds Ms Clarendon as FAO Representative in Jamaica.