Data Guest

Dr. Fred Boltz heads the Programming Division at the Global Environment Facility (GEF), overseeing global programs that provide funding and technical support to over 150 countries in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, combatting land use degradation, reducing chemicals and waste pollutants, and advancing transnational fresh water and marine systems conservation. Fred is a natural resource economist by training with a career focused on environment and sustainable development issues globally.

Fred is a Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of Tova, an enterprise pioneering deep-learning technologies for climate-smart water management. Tova’s WaterProof platform harnesses deep learning and remote sensing technologies to power scalable hydrologic analysis, enabling site to basin scale forecasting, investment planning and verification.