Our board of trustees

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EDF's board meeting
* Founding trustees

Officers

Carl Ferenbach
Chair
Chairman, High Meadows Foundation
Advisory Director and Co-founder, Berkshire Partners, LLC

Arthur Kern
Vice Chair
Investor

Arthur P. Cooley*
Secretary
Naturalist and former Expedition Leader, Lindblad Expeditions


G. Leonard Baker, Jr.
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures

James W. B. Benkard
Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Sally G. Bingham, M.Div.
President, The Regeneration Project, Interfaith Power and Light

Shelby W. Bonnie
Co-founder, CNET Networks

William K. Bowes, Jr.
Founding Partner, U.S. Venture Partners

Keith Campbell
Chairman, The Campbell Foundation
Chairman, Campbell & Company

Ruth DeFries, Ph.D.
Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

Ann Doerr
Philanthropist

Susan Ford Dorsey
President, Sand Hill Foundation

Stanley Druckenmiller
Investor

Kirsten J. Feldman
Former Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.
Pediatrician; Dean, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Charles J. Hamilton, Jr., Esq.
Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP

Griffith R. Harsh IV, M.D., M.A., M.B.A.
Professor and Associate Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine

Mark W. Heising
Managing Director, Medley Partners

The Honorable Thomas H. Kean
Chairman, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile

Richard J. Lazarus
Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard University

Abby Leigh
Artist

Sarah Liao Sau-tung, Ph.D.
Former Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works, Hong Kong SAR Government

Katherine Lorenz
President, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Frank Loy
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Susan Mandel
ZOOM Foundation

Kathryn Murdoch
Director, ReSource Oxford
Visiting Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford

Signe Ostby
Advisor, Center for Brand and Product Management, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Director, The Intuit Scholarship Foundation

Stephen W. Pacala, Ph.D.
Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Director, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University

Robert M. Perkowitz
Managing Partner, VivaTerra, LLC; President, ecoAmerica

Julian H. Robertson, Jr.
Founder and Chairman, Tiger Management, LLC

Peggy M. Shepard
Co-founder and Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice

Douglas W. Shorenstein
Chair and CEO, Shorenstein Properties, LLC

Sam Rawlings Walton
Boatman, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur

Charles F. Wurster, Ph.D.*
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook


Honorary Trustees

Roland C. Clement

Gene E. Likens, Ph.D.

George G. Montgomery, Jr.

George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.*



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