Cordel Green is an Attorney-at-Law, a former Assistant Attorney-General of Jamaica and a former broadcaster. He is the Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica.

His other affiliations include being Vice-Chairman of UNESCO Information For All Programme (IFAP), Chairman of the UNESCO-IFAP Working Group on Information Accessibility; Member of the International Institute of Communications (IIC); Advisory Board Member, Carnegie AI Equality Initiative (AIEI); Honorary member of the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, Washington DC; and Chairman of the Regulatory & Technical Committee for Digital Television SwitchOver in Jamaica.

Mr. Green holds Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) degrees from the University of the West Indies, a Master of Laws Degree with distinction, from the University of Sheffield in England, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Mona School of Business, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Programme and a Chevening Scholar.