Thackwray “Dax” Driver has been at the forefront of developments in the Trinidad & Tobago energy sector for over two decades. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad & Tobago between 2002 and early 2026 and oversaw the rapid growth of the Chamber to become a trade association representing the entire energy sector value and supply chain in the country and with membership in the wider region. He pioneered numerous new initiatives and activities for the Energy Chamber, including an award-winning safety programme, the Learning Centre and a suite of highly respected events covering all aspects of the energy sector, from oil and gas to renewable energy. He is recognised as a leading voice on the energy sector in Trinidad and the wider Caribbean and the relationship between energy and economic and social development.
He is a past Chair of the Caribbean Chambers Network (CARICHAM) and the Trinidad & Tobago Economic Development Board. He is an executive committee member of the CARICOM Private Sector Organisation and a member of the Board of the Caribbean Community Centre Climate Change (CCCCC). He was a founding member of the Trinidad & Tobago Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative multisector stakeholder committee and served as a member of the T&T Permanent Local Content Committee for many years. He has also been a Board member of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition of Services Industries, the University of Trinidad & Tobago and T&T Natural Gas Liquids Ltd.
Prior to joining the Energy Chamber, he was the director of Trinidad and Tobago’s Agricultural Sector Reform Programme.
He is a Board member of the Bocas Literary Festival.
He has a Ph.D. in environmental history from the University of London and has published peer reviewed articles on land reform, soil erosion and environmental policy and an edited collection on timescales and global environmental change.