Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig is the Deputy Executive Director of CDEMA and is a committed, results-oriented Disaster Risk Management (DRM) practitioner, with twenty-six (26) years of military service.

He has over sixteen (16) years’ experience working with community groups, government agencies, national, regional, and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the local government, health, security, energy, and environmental sectors while severing in various capacity at the National Disaster Office (NDO) in Guyana including as the Director General for five years up until July 2022.

Colonel Craig also contributed to academia as a part-time lecturer for the Post-Graduate Program at the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Studies, University of Guyana, for six years and was the Vice Chairman of the Association of Caribbean States Special Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction.

Colonel Kester Craig has a Master of Public Administration specialized in Emergency Management from Walden University, a Bachelor of Arts in Emergency and Disaster Management (Honours) from the America Military University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.