Dr. Sealy has dual nationalities, he is a Barbadian, with “Bajan” parents and having grown up in Barbados, and he was born in Edmonton, Canada in 1962. He gained his first degree in chemical engineering from McGill University and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Brunel University and the University of Liverpool respectively.
He is a consultant with over 25 years of experience as a project manager, a professional engineer, an environmental scientist and a university lecturer.
He has worked in the civil service, in the private sector and in academia. He is currently a Special Envoy of the Government of Barbados for climate change and a lecturer in the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at the University of the West Indies. He was the Director of the Environmental and Occupational Health Track in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at St. George’s University in Grenada.
In the private sector, he worked for Intel (Bdos. Ltd.), was the regional manager for Stantec (a large Canada-based engineering firm) and the Managing Director of New Water Inc., a firm specialising in wastewater treatment technology.
Since 2007, Dr. Sealy has served as a senior negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States Climate Change Technical Negotiating Team specialising in mitigation and carbon markets.
Dr. Sealy served as a Member of the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) (one of the financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol) from 2008 – 2016 and was the Chairman of the CDM Executive Board in 2014. He co-chaired the negotiations on Article 6 (carbon markets) of the Paris Agreement at COP 23 in Bonn in 2017 and COP 25 in Madrid in 2019.