Career
Between 1982 and 1984 Dabydeen worked as a community education officer in Wolverhampton. He subsequently went to the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick in Coventry, where he progressed over the years from lecturer to director. He was president of the Association for the Teaching of Caribbean, African, and Asian Literature between 1985 and 1987. He is a Professor at the Centre for British Comparative Cultural Studies at Warwick University.
In 1993 he was made Guyana's ambassador at UNESCO and is a member of their Executive Board.
In 2010 Dabydeen was appointed as Guyana’s Ambassador to China.
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