Our board of trustees
Fortune magazine called them one the most influential boards in the country
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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