Toni-Shae Freckleton
Toni-Shae Freckleton serves as the Team Leader for Sustainable Development in the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA). Toni-Shae leads on issues related to the Second Committee, G77 and China, and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Toni-Shae previously served in OPGA as Team Leader in the 73rd session and Deputy Team Leader in the 74th session. During her tenure in OPGA, she led the coordination of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, under the auspices of the General Assembly (SDG Summit) in 2019 and the Summit on Biodiversity in 2020.
Prior to joining OPGA, Toni-Shae had worked as a Jamaican public servant since 2003. As Director of Population and Health at the Planning Institute of Jamaica, her portfolio covered issues such as population and development, social development, health, international migration, modernization of the civil registration and vital statistics system and the Sustainable Development Goals. She served as Presiding Officer for Jamaica to the Regional Conference on Population and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean for the period 2015–2018.
Toni-Shae also had oversight responsibility for Jamaica’s coordination mechanism for the 2030 Agenda and led the national process for the first Voluntary National Review (VNR) to the High-Level Political Forum in 2018.
Her academic background includes a B.Sc in Sociology and Demography and a M.Sc in Sociology (Demography option) from the University of the West Indies, Mona in Jamaica.
