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Keston K. Perry, PhD. is a political economist and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College, USA where he teaching courses on race, reparations, colonialism and climate change and global finance and governance. His work examines the role of race as an economic ordering principle in the climate crisis and global financial arrangements, and their implications on marginalized communities in the African diaspora, especially the Caribbean region. He investigates how global financial system and international climate policy affects Caribbean societies in the context of intersecting economic and ecological crises. His work appreciates that development finance and global governing arrangements reproduce marginalization and dispossession specifically in the Caribbean. His work is published in a number of international academic journals and popular media outlets, and is currently working on a book on climate reparations and the implications of cascading ecological and economic calamities for the notion of ‘radical humanism’. He has worked and lived throughout the Caribbean, United States, and the United Kingdom. He was also formerly a lecturer in economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK and a postdoctoral scholar at the Climate Policy Lab, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. In 2021, Dr Perry served as an Economic Affairs Officer and consultant at the Division of Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In January 2022, he assumed the position of Associate Editor of the international academic journal Geoforum, and sits on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics. He was recently commissioned to provide expertise on a new podcast being produced by Guardian Media UK on the role of the organization in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. He earned his PhD at SOAS, University of London in 2017.