OEA - CP- Resolución CP CSH INF 620

PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE OEA/Ser.G

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CP/CSH/INF.620/26 06 May 2026

COMMITTEE ON HEMISPHERIC SECURITY Original: English/Spanish

MEETING TO DISCUSS THE SPECIAL SECURITY CONCERNS

OF THE SMALL ISLAND AND LOW-LYING COASTAL

DEVELOPING STATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

OAS Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

BIOGRAPHIES OF MODERATORS AND PANELISTS

2.1 Securing the Gateways: Border Governance, Trafficking Networks, and Institutional Resilience in Small Island and Low-Lying Coastal Developing States. Moderated by Chapell Whyms, Defence Attaché, Bahamas • Tonya Ayow, Deputy Executive Director of the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), Bio • Rafael Parada, Chief Supply Reduction Unit, Executive Secretariat of CICAD, Bio • Micheal Bejos, Officer in Charge of the OAS Department against Transnational Organized Crime (DTOC) , Bio

2.2 Securing the Maritime Lifeline: Maritime Domain Awareness and Cooperation against Transnational Organized Crime. Moderated by Tonya Ayow, Deputy Executive Director of the CARICOM IMPACS, Bio • Atlee Rodney, Deputy Executive Director RSS, Bio • Kaitlin Meredith, Regional Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Central America and the Caribbean in Panama • Jorge Duran, Chief of the Secretariat of the OAS Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP), Bio • Russel Gray, Head of Eco-Solve Data Component, Global Initiative Against TOC, Bio

2.3 Securing the Digital Frontier: Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Institutional Resilience. Moderated by Guillermo Moncayo, Officer in Charge, S/CICTE, Bio

• Tonya Ayow, Deputy Executive Director, CARICOM Implementation Agency for

Crime and Security, Bio

2.3 Securing the Digital Frontier: Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Institutional Resilience. Moderated by Guillermo Moncayo, Officer in Charge, S/CICTE, Bio

• Tonya Ayow, Deputy Executive Director, CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security, Bio • Rodrigo Silva, Senior Legal Officer, OAS Department of Legal Cooperation, Bio • Ariel Nowersztern, Sector Lead Specialist, Institutional Capacity for the State Division, Inter-American Development Bank • Roger Hernandez, Financial Advisor, Caribbean Financial Action Task Force, Bio • Brig. Gen. Maurizio Cintura, Guardia di Finanza Attaché for U.S.A., Canada and

Mexico, Bio