Sir Trevor Hassell is President of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC), Chairman of the Barbados National Chronic NCD Commission, and Barbados Special Envoy for Chronic Diseases. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, England, and for many decades, a central figure in the Caribbean NCD response promoting the importance of multisectorality and a whole-of-society approach to prevention and control of NCDs. He was actively involved in the advent of the Port of Spain Declaration on NCDs and is a recognised leader regionally and internationally in championing and leading all aspects of civil society’s engagement in the NCD response. He has been extensively involved in NCD policy making, wellness programmes and interventions, and civil society capacity building and advocacy across the region. In 2013 Sir Trevor was appointed to the Order of Barbados as a Knight of St. Andrew in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the medical profession and public health in Barbados.