Jonathan Barcant

About Jonathan

Jonathan has played a key leading and guiding role in IAMovement since its inception in 2014, helping to ultimately bring it to where it is today.

He is one of the organization’s co-founders and helped to lead its first key public advocacy and climate activism events through the Port of Spain People’s Climate Marches in 2014 and 2015, during key UN Climate Summits in New York and Paris. He went on to help develop and produce the documentary $MALL CHANGE working alongside film director Dylan Quesnel, another founding member of IAMovement in 2016; and he took up the post of Managing Director in 2017.

Jonathan is a civil engineer specialized in soils, water and environment and through this has led much of IAMovement’s technical project development and implementation activities to date, importantly relating to the organization’s work with vetiver grass and the Vetiver System (VS), through the now widely tried and tested Vetiver Education & Empowerment Project (VEEP) model which Jonathan originally co-developed with a colleague, friend and community member from Paramin, Jaime Romany. Jonathan also led and co-led the development of many other projects and initiatives in the education and public awareness spaces of IAMovement such as the Climate Talks programme, REthinking Energy video series, and other educational videos and films over the years; along with the inaugural Caribbean Green Infrastructure Conference in 2022 and the WEClimate App. After playing a leading role in the building of IAMovement since its early days, Jonathan handed over the torch of day-to-day management for the organization in 2022, and now serves as Chairman and Technical Director.

Jonathan is also the founder of the green engineering company Vetiver TT Ecological Engineering Solutions Ltd, and co-founder of House of Vetiver Ltd and Close The Loop Caribbean Ltd. He holds similar Board level, technical and guiding roles in these organizations, which are all regenerative, community and environment-supporting in nature, and work alongside IAMovement for the implementation of relevant projects and activities all aligned to IAMovement’s overarching goal of effecting positive social and environmental change, in Trinidad & Tobago and beyond.