Robin Jones

Robin Jones is the executive director of Conservation Biology Institute.  She brings a strong foundation in biological sciences and a career that bridges environmental impact, technology innovation, and cross-sector leadership. With a BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, she has held executive roles spanning product management, marketing, partner ecosystems, and organizational operations. Her work has increasingly focused on advancing environmental data access and decision-making tools. As Senior VP of Marketing & Business Development at Socrata, she helped governments harness open data for greater transparency and resource management. At Esri, she founded and led Esri’s geospatial developer business unit, enabling wider integration of location intelligence into conservation, land-use planning, and environmental monitoring applications, among others. Her career reflects a commitment to translating complex science and technology into tools for ecological resilience and sustainability.