Douglas Anthony Clive Saunders OJ CD (born 15 February 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican diplomat.
Saunders is the third officer to take over the reins of this distinguished position as head of central government and has held this post from June 2008.
He is also Pope Paul VI Scholar of St. John's University in New York where he obtained a master's degree in Government and Politics, majoring in International Relations in 1981.
These include as Counsellor (Economic Affairs) at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York; Deputy Director of Foreign Trade; Deputy High Commissioner in London to Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Spain and Portugal; Director of European Affairs; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Cuba, the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, the Republic of France, Ireland as well as High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa.
These include the Long Service Award in 1998 for 25 years of service to the Government of Jamaica in 1998; l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Commandeur) of France in 2002, the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander (CD) in 2003 and the Order of Jamaica (OJ) in 2011, the nation's fourth highest honour.