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
Vice Chair, Heising-Simons Foundation - 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.
Limited Partner, 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
Former Governor of New Jersey
Chairman, THK Consulting - Lisa Keith
Development Consultant - Richard J. Lazarus
Charles Stebbins Fairchild 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 - Elizabeth McCance
Trustee, McCance Family Foundation - Marie Lynn Miranda, Ph.D.
Chancellor and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Illinois Chicago - 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, Emeritus
Senior Scholar in the High Meadows Environmental Institute, 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 - Ion Yadigaroglu
Managing Partner, Capricorn Investment Group
Honorary trustees
- Gene E. Likens, Ph.D.
- N. J. Nicholas, Jr.