Dr. Antonio Carmona Báez

Antonio Carmona Báez is professor of International Relations and the Political Economy of Development, currently serving as President of the University of St. Martin (USM) in Philipsburg. He received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 2002 and has taught at the same university as well as at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras and Bayamón, and at the Centre for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Carmona Báez is Co-Chair of the 5-year multidisciplinary research programme on climate change, Island(er)s at the Helm, which is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has directed collaborative research projects funded by the Dutch Health and Biomedical Research Council (ZonMw) and established the St. Martin Science Research Institute (SSRI) at USM in 2022. Together with his team of administrators and instructors, Carmona Báez was responsible for offering the University of the Virgin Islands and USM’s joint Bachelor degree programme in Education at the sister islands of Saba and Sint Eustatius. Together with Melissa Weiner, Carmona Báez is co-editor of Smash the Pillars: Decoloniality and the Imaginary of Color in the Dutch Kingdom (Lexington, 2018) and has (co-) authored peer-reviewed articles, essays and chapter contributions in the areas of climate challenges and public policy, social movements, and political construct and identity in non-independent Caribbean territories.

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