Fortune magazine called our board one of the most influential nonprofit boards in the country.
Officers
Carl Ferenbach, Chair
Chairman, High Meadows Foundation
Shelby W. Bonnie, Vice Chair
Co-founder, CNET Networks
Ruth DeFries, Ph.D., Vice Chair
Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, Vice Chair
Chairman Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York;
Chairman, THK Consulting, LLC
Art Cooley*, Secretary
Naturalist and former Expedition Leader, Lindblad Expeditions
Trustees
Herb Allen
President, Allen & Company
G. Leonard Baker, Jr.
Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Joshua Bekenstein
Managing Director, Bain Capital
Michael D. Bills
Founder and CIO, Bluestem Asset Management
Sally G. Bingham, M.Div.
President Emeritus, The Regeneration Project, Interfaith Power and Light
Christopher A. Cole
Chairman, Ardea Partners, LLC
Christopher Costello
Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Bren School UCSB; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Leslie Dach
Strategic Consultant
Susan Ford Dorsey
President, Sand Hill Foundation
Stanley Druckenmiller
Investor
Kirsten J. Feldman
Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley;
Chair, Steep Rock Association
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
Griff Harsh
Professor and Associate Dean, Stanford School of Medicine
Mark W. Heising
Managing Director, Medley Partners
Alice Hill
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Resilience for National Security Council
Lisa Keith
Development Consultant
Richard J. Lazarus
Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard University
Abby Leigh
Artist
Katherine Lorenz
President, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Frank Loy
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Secretary Ray Mabus
Former Secretary of the Navy
Susan Mandel
ZOOM Foundation
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
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, Princeton University
Julian H. Robertson, Jr.
Founder and Chairman, Tiger Management, LLC
Virginia Sall
Co-founder, Sall Family Foundation
Peggy M. Shepard
Co-founder and Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT for Environmental Justice)
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
Xue Lan
Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Honorary trustees
Gene E. Likens, Ph.D.
George G. Montgomery, Jr.
N. J. Nicholas, Jr.
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.*
* Founding trustees
