Prior to joining the National Geographic Society, Kevin Chand served as the Senior Legal Adviser at the Permanent Mission of Vanuatu to the United Nations. Chand played a prominent role in the campaign to take the issue of climate change to the International Court of Justice, co-facilitating the negotiations of this resolution, leading efforts to develop and implement a legal and political strategy for the initiative. While at the UN, he actively contributed to the PSIDS group in the BBNJ negotiations.

Chand began his career in ocean law and policy in Fiji focused on the intersection of customary marine tenure systems, Indigenous fishing rights, and national legal systems. Previously he worked with regional organizations in the Pacific including the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency and the Pacific Community. Chand has taught at Stanford at and was based at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.

Chand has an LLM from Stanford Law School, a Master of Environmental Management from the University of Queensland and a Bachelor of Law from the University of the South Pacific.