delano franklyn is a practicing attorneyatlaw and is one of the founding partners of the law firm wilson franklyn barnes1 his area of legal work includes civil and criminal litigation conveyancing land labour intellectual property entertainment and sports law he is also chairman of the michael manley foundationan attorneyatlaw and trained teacher franklyn was educated at kingston college mico teachers college the university of the west indies mona jamaica cave hill barbados and the norman manley law school mona jamaica he was called to the bar in 1995during his years at high school college and university mr franklyn was elected as president of a number of student and youth organisations at the national level in 1995 he was appointed the manager of the national youth service nys he is the only jamaican to have been the president of both the national secondary students council nssc and the jamaica union of tertiary students juts and also the only jamaican to have been elected president of the guild of undergraduates at both campuses of the university of the west indies in mona and cave hill respectivelyin 1998 was appointed the chief advisor to the then prime minister of jamaica pj patterson in 1999 he was appointed a justice of the peace and in 2000 he was one of the distinguished graduates who received the millennium award from the mico teachers college in october 2002 he was appointed a senator and the minister of state in the ministry of foreign affairs and foreign trade with special responsibility forthe jamaican diaspora and overseas communitiescountries of the caribbean and the americasassociation of caribbean states acssummit of the americasconsular affairsmarine aviation affairslatin america and economic systems selaorganisation of american states oasunescothe rio groupin october 2006 he was appointed by the then prime minister of jamaica portia simpson miller to give ministerial oversight to jamaicas role in cricket world cup 2007 which took place in nine caribbean territories in march and april 2007in september 2007 he was a candidate in the general elections for the peoples national party pnp in western st maryfranklyn has written numerous articles on a range of issues which have been published in national newspapers the jamaica observer the gleaner and the heraldhe is the author and editor of the books2 the right move corporate leadership and governance in jamaica 2001 a jamaican voice in caribbean and world politics 2002 the challenges of change 2003 we want justice jamaica and the caribbean court of justice 2005 michael manley the politics of equality 2009 sprinting into history jamaica and the 2008 olympic games 2009 and the jamaican diaspora building and operational framework 2010in 2010 he delivered the annual gracekennedy foundation lecture the topic being sport in jamaica a local and international perspectivefranklyn is married lives in st andrew jamaica and has two children