He is a Professor of Tropical Island Ecology and Head of Department of Life Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago. Professor Agard has also served internationally as lead author in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007.
Each year, the Global Water Partnership (GWP) holds an Annual Consulting Partners (CP) Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden home of the global Secretariat. The CP Meeting is a consultative approach in which Partners recommend actions to be taken, which is fundamental to the operation of the GWP network, which spans over 2,900 partner organisations in more than 180 countries. This year the 2014 GWP Consulting Partners Meeting was for the first time held in Trinidad and Tobago.