Chris Docherty is the Managing Director of Windward Commodities, an international group with investments in agricultural supply chains and food brands across the Caribbean, Southern Africa and the Pacific. He is a non-executive director of the Caribbean Council and Chairman of the West Indies Sugar & Trading Company Ltd (WISTCO), Barbados. WISTCO sells branded Barbados sugar to retailers across the Caribbean, the EU and USA and pays producers over double the world price for the sugar it buys, helping to support the wider industry.

He has global blue-chip experience with Shell International and wide experience creating brands across traditional agricultural commodity sectors for the benefit of producers in the developing world. His focus through Windward is on establishing brands in commodity sectors backed by sustainable supply chains, helping producers to move up commodity value chains. He has a MA from Oxford University, a postgraduate diploma in marketing and has lived in Barbados, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, the Philippines, New Zealand, Fiji and Brazil. He believes passionately in the potential for the Caribbean and other small island states to improve food security and livelihoods by producing more and importing less.