Mr Philip S. Weech is an environmental scientist with over thirty years of experience in the water sector as well as possessing international experience after having worked in a United Nations specialized agency. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) membership number 10953 and has degrees at the Bachelors and Masters of Science level from St Johns University in Collegeville, Minnesota and Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.
He has extensive experience in small island hydrology after progressively expanding responsibilities in the water sector of The Bahamas. His responsibilities included but were not limited to water resources assessment, management of family island water systems across the Commonwealth as well as planning and management of water resources expansion efforts in the Ministry of Works and later in the Water and Sewerage Corporation.
Mr Weech also has international experiences after serving as the national focal points for the International Hydrological Programme of WMO, as well as regional and interregional experiences working with the World Health and Pan American Health organization in water quality and supply issues in small island states. Nationally he has served on the Boards of the Bahamas National Trust, the Food Standards Board and the Board of Directors of the Bahamas Environment Science and Technology Commission. He was also a contributing author to the IPCC third assessment report and has written on water and climate change issues as they affect small island states.
Mr Weech has also spent five years working in a United Nations specialized agency focusing on Climate Change capacity building in developing states as well as providing financial and technical support to the implementation of commitments under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
His international experiences as a representative of the Bahamas Government included working with several multilateral environmental agreements including the Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ramsar Conventions. He serves as the national focal point for several international agreements as well as the Operational Focal Point for the Global Environment Facility of the World Bank. He has and continues to lead delegations representing the Bahamas at international meetings on climate change, biodiversity and other multilateral environmental agreements to which the Bahamas is a signatory.
Mr Weech as the Director of the Bahamas Environment Science and Technology Commission in the Ministry of the Environment is also the Chairman of the Bahamas National Energy Policy Committee.
