Dr. Denzil Phillips
Denzil Phillips International

Lawrance Denzil Phillips has worked in the field of botanicals and natural products in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean for more than 35 years. Denzil co-founded High Value Horticulture plc in 1989 and launched Denzil Phillips International Ltd (DPIL) in 1998. DPIL has undertaken consultancy assignments with many of the world’s leading natural product, beauty care and phyto-pharmaceutical companies. It also advised many African and Caribbean governments and international agencies such as World Bank, Commonwealth Secretariat and the European Commission (EU).Denzil now lives in Barbados where he works on building bridges between Africa and the Caribbean in the field of high value crops. He was founder Director of the Association of African Medicinal Plants Standards (AAMPS) an organisation dedicated to promoting quality standards for African medicinal plants, founder Director of the Global Frankincense Alliance (GFA) and is an advisor to the Spa and Wellness Association of Africa (SWAA) and the Global Wellness Institute (GWI)Denzil has worked in more than 55 countries many of them in Africa and the Caribeean. These include Barbados, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Grenada, Jamaica, Kenya Uganda and South Africa. He specialises in the conservation and sustainable sourcing of high value natural products many of which are indigenous plants. He also helped organise the first Medicinal Plants Business Forum for Commonwealth Africa in Kirstenbosch in 2000 and the World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Cape Town in 2008 (WOCMAP IV) Denzil has presented at more than 65 international botanical meetings during in his long career and is passionate about sharing his knowledge with young African and Caribbean researchers in the field of natural products( www.denzil.com)