Deryck Omar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality, or CROSQ, headquartered in Barbados. CROSQ is the regional quality infrastructure development institution founded by the fifteen member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Mr. Omar is focusing on modernizing and accelerating the preparation, adoption and application of regional standards, metrology, accreditation and conformity assessment systems to increase trade, boost industrial efficiency and effectiveness, advance a quality conscious culture among citizens and further the cause of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. He was the past chief executive of the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, and a past Director of: ExporTT (Trinidad and Tobago), Occupational Safety and Health Agency (Trinidad and Tobago), COPANT (Pan American Standards Organization) and ASTM International, USA.