Nicole Brown is CANARI’s Deputy Executive Director and Manager of the Regional Implementation Team for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot. Her relationship with CANARI spans more than three decades, including service as Communications Coordinator, Associate and adjunct staff member, before joining as Senior Technical Officer in 2021 and becoming Deputy Executive Director in mid-2026.
Nicole has over 30 years of experience working at the intersection of natural resource management and human development as a facilitator, writer, evaluator, and designer and implementer of programmes and participatory processes. Her work spans biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, monitoring and evaluation, and participatory approaches to natural resource governance and management.
She has extensive experience in community and stakeholder mobilisation and participation, with a particular interest in communicating technical issues to non-specialist audiences. She has written and co-authored several training manuals and toolkits used across the Caribbean. A trained evaluator, Nicole has worked in the intergovernmental and not-for-profit sectors in the Caribbean, Central America and the Commonwealth.
Nicole holds an MA in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (1990) and a BA in International Studies from Elmira College, New York (1988).