Anthony T. Bryan

Anthony T. Bryan is a senior associate in the CSIS Americas Program. Previously, he served as director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the North-South Center of the University of Miami in Florida and as professor of international relations and director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. During his academic career, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He has held visiting professorial appointments at Indiana University at Bloomington, the University of Texas at Austin, Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. He has spent much of his career at universities and major “think tanks” and in consulting and advisement to the private sector, governments, and international organizations.

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he received his Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is the author/editor of 12 books and monographs and numerous scholarly articles on Caribbean and Latin American issues. He has been the joint recipient of several major research grants, including a multiyear project on adapting border controls to support Caribbean trade and development, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Bryan is a contributor to several business publications and newspapers in the Caribbean. He has been quoted in business and trade publications such as Upstream: The International Oil & Gas Newspaper; Latin-American Energy Advisor; The Economist; Latin Finance; and Latin American Monitor, among others. He has testified on U.S.-Caribbean trade and foreign policy issues before U.S. congressional committees on several occasions.