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Margaret McDowall-Thompson has a first degree in Geography and Economics, and Masters in Urban Geography and City and Regional Planning. She worked for four years at the Town and Country Planning as a Development Planner as the Co-editor of the National Physical Development Plan and several regional and local area plans: at the National Housing Authority for six years as the Land Assembly Coordinator, responsible for creating the National Housing Land Bank and regularisation of isolated State parcels and squatting communities and then at NIPDEC where over the next eight years as Manager, Research, Planning and Business Development she was responsible for a wide range of projects from urban reconstruction such as the Brian Lara Promenade, City Gate and vendor regularisation to Community and Health Centres to BOLT developments in Trinidad and St. Lucia, Prisoner Transportation and CDAP. In 1998, she became the General Manager of NIPDEC until her early retirement in 2006. Since that time she has been Managing Director of a consultancy company EMBA and has concentrated on urban management projects in several urban centres with a concentration on regularisation of vendors. Ms. McDowall-Thompson has also become involved in several community and charity projects one of which is the restoration of a swimming pool and intends to play a greater role in its operation and management. She has also been privileged to be a member of the TTSP Newsletter team.
Ancil Kirk is an urban and regional planner. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Sociology and Management, and a M.Sc. degree in Planning and Development from the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. He is currently pursuing DPhil. studies in Religion and Society at Oxford Graduate School, Tennessee USA. The focus of his dissertation is on land use planning.
He is a qualified teacher who taught at the secondary school level for twenty four years, and lectured at the tertiary level for seven years. He began his career in the field of planning, as a planning research consultant with the Land Use Policy and Administration Project (LUPAP) of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, (1999-2001). Since 2003, he has been employed with the Town and Country Planning Division, Ministry of Planning, Economic and Social Re-constructuring and Gender Affairs. He holds the position of Senior Land Use Planner.
Arnim Cozier is an experienced land use planner who has practiced the profession for almost 4 decades. Having completed undergraduate and postgraduate training in the United Kingdom at the University of Manchester and Nottingham respectively, his experience includes various portfolios in the Town and Country Planning Division in Trinidad and Tobago including representation on several Government Inter-Ministerial Committees; practice as a private sector property development consultant and project coordinator with Planviron Limited and Home Construction Limited; and part-time lecturing at the UWI Department of Surveying and Land Information. Mr. Cozier has also worked on projects in several other Caribbean jurisdictions including Grenada, St. Lucia and Antigua. He is still in private practice and currently President of the Trinidad and Tobago Society of Planners.
Nigel Woodsley - Assistant Secretary
Nigel is a graduate of UWI Mona Jamaica with a B.A Degree Geography. He holds an M.Sc. Degree in Planning and Development, from UWI St Augustine.
Nigel has 15 years of diversified experience in planning and managing the Built Environment in both the Public and State Enterprise Sector; his recent focus has been in Corporate Strategic Asset Management, Project Management, Property Management, Retail Planning, Urban Regional Planning, Development Planning and EIA reviews for Industrial Development.
Nigel has gained considerable experience at all levels of project planning and execution. He is currently employed as the Manager Facilities at the Trinidad & Tobago National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited.
Previous experience included a seven-year stint at the Town and Country Planning Division. His experience there included Development Control, Development Planning and Coordination of Environmental Impact Assessments for Onshore Energy Projects, Mining activities, Housing Developments and development of Emergency Management policy for Residential properties.
Liesl began her academic career with a B.A in Geography from the University of Western Ontario (UWO). Upon completion, she obtained a M.Sc in Urban Planning and Development from the University of West Indies. Complementary studies have also been completed in Transportation Planning and Environmental Management.
Working at the Town and Country Planning Division for four years has laid the foundation for her career in the public sector, working in Development Control and Development Planning. On the heels of this opportunity she moved into the private sector working with the Home Construction Group of Companies (HCL) for ten years as a Junior Planner and moved up to the Senior Land Use Planner. She was instrumental in setting up the Land Information Unit responsible for Environmental Impact Assessments for the company and its respective land use planning and coordination of the land development programme.
As a private consultant she has more recently been involved as an Associate Planner on a range of projects from rural development to Regional and Spatial development Planning Programme in 2009-2010.
She is an avid runner and hopes to enter the marathon next year.
