Board of Directors

Dr Joth Singh joined The Nature Conservancy in March 2022 as Institutional Partnerships Director within the Caribbean Division and was promoted to Director of Policy and Strategic Programs of the Division in May 2023. In this role he provides overall direction to the policy work at the Caribbean Division level, leads on public financing at a regional level, provides guidance and support to Geography leaders and their teams on national-scale policy initiatives, and supervises the staff within the Division’s Policy and Strategic Programs Team. He is also currently the TNC representative on the regional Conservation Trust Fund Board of Directors – the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund. Before joining TNC, Joth held senior positions in various non-profit and multilateral organizations and has worked internationally, regionally within the Caribbean, and nationally in Trinidad and Tobago. His responsibilities have spanned a range of environmental and development areas of focus, and included leading the Wildlife and Habitat program at the International Fund for Animal Welfare,managing the environmental portfolio at USAID’s Eastern and Southern Caribbean Mission, management of the Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) Facility within the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund, and heading the Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad and Tobago. He holds an MSc in Environmental Management from the University of London, a Ph.D in Environmental Chemistry from the University of the West Indies, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow working on ecotoxicology at Canada’s Dalhousie University/Bedford Institute of Oceanography. He grew up on the island of Trinidad.