Ms. Jill Blockhus
Director of International Partnerships, The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Jill Blockhus is Director of International Partnerships at The Nature Conservancy. Based in Washington, D.C., she has 25 years of international experience in natural resources management, including climate change, community forestry, access and resource tenure rights, forest policy, and community development.
She is responsible for working with multi-disciplinary teams to promote Natural Climate Solutions, including advancing policy engagement with international institutions and expanding the uptake around NCS and Forest Landscapes in Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, India and China.
Dr. Blockhus developed and manages TNC’s relationship with the Government of Norway, which funds REDD+ science, policy and large scale field sites in Indonesia and Brazil. Within TNC, she works with the Forests and Climate Policy teams, crafting community engagement; ensuring social and environmental standards; and publishing papers on conservation and development.
Before joining TNC, Dr. Blockhus was Coordinator of the Program on Forests (PROFOR) at the World Bank where she reduced the vulnerability of forest-dependent peoples. She also supported the World Bank Forest Sector Support Program in Vietnam and managed several Global Environmental Facility grants. Before Dr. Blockhus joined the World Bank, she was a Program Officer at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Gland, Switzerland, where she developed and managed forest conservation and development projects in Asia.
She holds an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway; an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in International Environmental Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She is responsible for working with multi-disciplinary teams to promote Natural Climate Solutions, including advancing policy engagement with international institutions and expanding the uptake around NCS and Forest Landscapes in Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, India and China.
Dr. Blockhus developed and manages TNC’s relationship with the Government of Norway, which funds REDD+ science, policy and large scale field sites in Indonesia and Brazil. Within TNC, she works with the Forests and Climate Policy teams, crafting community engagement; ensuring social and environmental standards; and publishing papers on conservation and development.
Before joining TNC, Dr. Blockhus was Coordinator of the Program on Forests (PROFOR) at the World Bank where she reduced the vulnerability of forest-dependent peoples. She also supported the World Bank Forest Sector Support Program in Vietnam and managed several Global Environmental Facility grants. Before Dr. Blockhus joined the World Bank, she was a Program Officer at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Gland, Switzerland, where she developed and managed forest conservation and development projects in Asia.
She holds an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway; an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Ph.D. in International Environmental Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.