About Us

Board of Trustees

Carl Ferenbach
Chair
Managing Director, 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

Rod Beckstrom
President and CEO, ICANN

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

Sally G. Bingham, M.Div.
President, The Regeneration Project

Shelby W. Bonnie
Co-founder, CNET Networks

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

Lewis B. Cullman
Chairman Emeritus, Chess-in-the-Schools

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

Ann Doerr
Philanthropist

Susan Ford Dorsey
President, the Sand Hill Foundation

Stanley Druckenmiller
Chairman and CEO, Duquesne Capital Management

Roger Enrico
Chairman, DreamWorks Animation, SKG; former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.

Kirsten J. Feldman
Former Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Jeanne Donovan Fisher
True Love Productions

Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.
Pediatrician; Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Charles J. Hamilton, Jr.
Partner, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP (retired)

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

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

Frank Loy
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Susan Mandel
Community Advocate

Kathryn Murdoch
Director of Strategy and Communications, Clinton Climate Initiative

N. J. Nicholas, Jr.
Investor

David O'Connor
Managing Partner, Creative Artists 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.
Petrie Professor of Biology in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, Princeton University; Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute

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

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

E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
Vice Chairman Emeritus, J.P. Morgan

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

Paul Junger Witt
Partner, Witt Thomas Productions

Joanne Woodward
Actress, Director, Producer

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.
John H. T. Wilson
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.*

*Founding Trustees

Posted: 06-Apr-2006; Updated: 06-May-2010

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