Nina Paige Hadley

Senior Director, Guardians Program, Re:wild

Nina is the senior director of Re:wild’s Guardians program, leading the creation and execution of the organization’s global strategy to achieve its vision to ensure that every person in a position to protect Earth’s biodiversity has agency to do so. She leverages the significant global network, science expertise, and intellectual capital of Re:wild with strategic partnerships to deliver innovative human-centered solutions. With her contagious optimism and energy, a focus of her work is cultivating conservation leadership and supporting an inclusive global movement of emboldened conservationists who have the competence, confidence, and tools they want and need. She believes that every person has the capacity to develop into their best self and that every leader is a catalyst for positive change in others.

Nina started her career on Midway Atoll in the Pacific, researching public-private co-management models for marine protected areas and drafting the National Wildlife Refuge’s first tourism strategy plan. In 1997, she founded Tidal Delta LLC, a Seattle-based strategic consulting firm.

Nina has spent over 20 years working in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Central and South America at the world's leading conservation organizations advancing marine, terrestrial and climate strategies. She is the former deputy managing director, Global Lands, for the Nature Conservancy (TNC). During her 13-year career at TNC, she also managed global programs across Indigenous Peoples and Oceans initiatives, as well as led the organization’s Asia-Pacific conservation leadership network and co-founded the Conservation Partnership Center. She helped pilot TNC’s conservation audit program in Komodo National Park in Indonesia and facilitated TNC’s first population, health and environment (PHE) project in Tanzania to advance an innovative, partnership-driven community co-benefit strategy. Nina holds a Master’s in Marine Affairs from the University of Washington, a BS in marine science from University of South Carolina Honors College, is a member of the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNET) and served on the board of the Center for Nature & Leadership. She calls the eastern slopes of the North Cascades of Washington State home where she enjoys trail running, rock climbing and supporting the local farm food movement where she lives with her partner and their orange tabby Franklin.