A memo­r­i­al ser­vice for An­gela Crop­per takes place on Tues­day from 2 pm at the Daa­ga Au­di­to­ri­um, UWI, St Au­gus­tine. The co-founder and first pres­i­dent of The Crop­per Foun­da­tion died in Lon­don on No­vem­ber 12 af­ter a pro­tract­ed ill­ness. She was ten days shy of her 67th birth­day.

Keisha Gar­cia, cur­rent pres­i­dent of the foun­da­tion, said of the memo­r­i­al:?"Far from say­ing good­bye, it looks for­ward to the ways in which we will see her work and philoso­phies con­tin­ue and grow." The pro­gramme will in­clude greet­ings from Pres­i­dent George Maxwell Richards and a trib­ute by Sir George Al­leyne, Chan­cel­lor of UWI.

Dr Danielle Lyn­der­say will read from John Crop­per's Poui and there will be a per­for­mance by di­alect po­et Paul Keens-Dou­glas. Al­so of­fer­ing trib­utes will be Ken Per­sad on be­half of the Crop­per fam­i­ly; Achim Stein­er of the Unit­ed Na­tions En­vi­ron­ment Pro­gramme; Pro­fes­sor Nor­man Gir­van and Bren­dan Cox, the first re­cip­i­ent of the Dev Crop­per Memo­r­i­al Award.

In 2000 An­gela and her hus­band John Crop­per es­tab­lished The Crop­per Foun­da­tion, a not-for-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion through which they aimed to con­tin­ue their work in sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment, eq­ui­ty and bet­ter en­vi­ron­men­tal and re­source man­age­ment. From 2001-2005 Crop­per was co-chair of the Mil­len­ni­um As­sess­ment Pan­el, a glob­al pro­gramme to un­der­take a holis­tic sci­en­tif­ic as­sess­ment of the state of eco-sys­tems across the world.

She was al­so co-or­di­nat­ing lead au­thor of the Caribbean Sea Ecosys­tem As­sess­ment. Pre­vi­ous­ly Crop­per was se­nior ad­vis­er on en­vi­ron­ment and de­vel­op­ment at the UNDP Bu­reau for De­vel­op­ment Pol­i­cy; ex­ec­u­tive sec­re­tary of the UN Con­ven­tion on Bi­o­log­i­cal Di­ver­si­ty and Head of Gov­er­nance at the World Con­ser­va­tion Union.

In the 1980s she served as di­rec­tor of func­tion­al co-op­er­a­tion at the Cari­com Sec­re­tari­at and ad­vis­er in en­vi­ron­ment and in ed­u­ca­tion to the Cari­com sec­re­tary-gen­er­al. She was al­so Caribbean rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the In­ter­na­tion­al Planned Par­ent­hood Fed­er­a­tion/ West­ern Hemi­sphere Re­gion and project man­ag­er for the East­ern Caribbean in Pop­u­la­tion and De­vel­op­ment.

She be­gan her ca­reer in the 1970s as a re­search of­fi­cer at the Caribbean In­dus­tri­al Re­search In­sti­tute in Trinidad and was an ac­tive mem­ber of the Tapia House Move­ment.