Jon Silverstone

Jon has worked in the nonprofit sector for three decades, managing international programs and securing institutional funding. He has designed and directed multi-year projects to improve education, public health, food security, and climate resilience in more than two dozen countries across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific. At CORAL, he collaborates with program and science teams to fund community-led reef conservation. He believes that people and nature thrive or decline together, and that conservation succeeds when it is designed and owned by the people whose culture and livelihoods depend on a healthy local environment. Jon holds degrees from Boston University and Brown University. He is an advanced SCUBA diver and enjoys tending his native plant garden and cooking for family and friends.