Vincent Adams

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Vincent Adams, born on 26 January 1950 in Good Intent, British Guiana, is a Guyanese-American environmental engineer and former cricketer. He was among the first civil engineering graduates from the University of Guyana and later moved to the United States to study further, earning master’s degrees in hydrogeology and petroleum and geological engineering, plus a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Tennessee. Adams played first-class cricket for Guyana, debuting in 1969 as an opening batsman; he appeared in five matches with a top score of 121 before his cricket career was cut short by a car accident.

In 1986 he joined the U.S. Department of Energy, starting as a hydrogeologist in West Texas and then working as an environmental engineer in Tennessee. He eventually led the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, directing deactivation and decommissioning projects at the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge and overseeing groundwater and soils programs. He later managed Recovery Act work at the Savannah River Site and responsibilities at the Paducah and Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plants, retiring in December 2016.

Adams then served as head of Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency from 2018 to 2020. He also played a key role in cricket administration in the United States, joining ICC advisory groups in 2016 to promote growth of the game and helping establish USA Cricket after USACA’s expulsion in 2017, with a position on the USA Cricket Committee from August 2020. In 2020, while reviewing ExxonMobil’s Payara oil field plan, he was placed on leave in August and fired in November.