Founder | Director

Caroline Mair-Toby is the founding Director for the Institute for Small Islands; an Attorney at Law, Mair and Company; and a Director at the Fondes Amandes Reforestation Community Project. Most recently, she was a legal advisor and negotiator with the Trinidad and Tobago delegation to COP27 Egypt 2022 and COP28 Dubai 2023. Caroline has been advising at the climate negotiations since 2011 with first FIELD and then LRI, facilitating legal and technical advice to Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and civil societies including Indigenous Peoples. She is working on climate justice and Indigenous rights issues around the world, including the Greater Caribbean (Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica), Kenya, Australia, Colombia. She read Caribbean, Indian and African postcolonial literature for her BA at the University of Pennsylvania; environmental and commercial law for her LLB at Queen Mary, University of London; and an environmental law and human rights for her LLM at City Law School, University of London (formerly the Inns of Court School of Law).