Board of trustees

Fortune magazine called our board one of the most influential nonprofit boards in the country.

Officers

Mark W. Heising, Chair
Managing Director, Medley Partners

Matt Cohler, Vice Chair
General Partner, Benchmark

Katherine Lorenz, Vice Chair
President, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

Peggy M. Shepard, Vice Chair
Co-founder and Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT for Environmental Justice)

Trustees

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

Joshua Bekenstein
Managing Director, Bain Capital

Georges C. Benjamin, MD
Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Michael D. Bills
Founder and CIO, Bluestem Asset Management

Shelby W. Bonnie
Co-founder, CNET Networks

Christopher A. Cole
Chairman, Ardea Partners, LLC

Christopher Costello
Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Bren School UCSB
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Rachel Crane
Former Space, Science and Innovations Correspondent, CNN

Leslie Dach
Strategic Consultant

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

Susan Ford Dorsey
President, Sand Hill Foundation

Stanley Druckenmiller
Investor

Nikki Eslami
Founder and CEO, New Theory Ventures
Founder and CEO, Wild Elements

Kirsten J. Feldman
Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Chair, Steep Rock Association

Carl Ferenbach
Chairman, High Meadows Foundation

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

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

Alice Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations

Coddy Johnson
Partner, Goodwater Capital

The Honorable Thomas H. Kean
Chairman Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Chairman, THK Consulting

Lisa Keith
Development Consultant

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

Abby Leigh
Artist

Frank Loy
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Secretary Ray Mabus
Former Secretary of the Navy

Susan Mandel
ZOOM Foundation

Marie Lynn Miranda, Ph.D.
Chancellor-Elect of the University of Illinois Chicago
Professor, University of Notre Dame

Kathryn Murdoch
President, Quadrivium Foundation

Susan Oberndorf
President, Susan and William Oberndorf Foundation

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D.
Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program/National Institutes of Health
Former Director of the National Center for Environmental Assessment/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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

Bruce V. Rauner
Former Governor, State of Illinois
Former Chairman, GTCR

Spencer Robertson

Virginia Sall
Co-founder, Sall Family Foundation

Lise Strickler
Three Cairns Group

David S. Vogel
CEO & Chief Scientist, Voloridge Investment Management

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

Ion Yadigaroglu
Managing Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

Honorary trustees

Gene E. Likens, Ph.D.

N. J. Nicholas, Jr.

George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.*

* Founding trustee