Timothy E. McPherson Jr.

[15][16][17][18][19] McPherson was instrumental in negotiating the decision to establish an African Union Diaspora headquarters within the Maroon territories on the island of Jamaica.

The headquarters will be used as a strategic gathering point for the Sixth Region, which was being consolidated by the African Union Permanent Mission to Washington and now by ECO-6.

[20][21] In 2008, the Nanny Town Maroons were included within the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,[22] which obliges the safeguarding of the local ecology.

McPherson has since become notable for his promotion of sustainable development and climate change related cooperation between Africa and the Caribbean.

[26] While Minister of Finance, McPherson had made numerous strategic strides in restructuring the economy, and became particularly notable for the creation and introduction of the LUMI, the official currency of the economic community of the African Diaspora Sixth Region (ECO-6) as well as for the indigenous kingdoms on the continent of Africa.