Who We Are
Board of Directors
Board Policy Statement
Composed of leaders from the scientific, conservation and business communities, the WWF board of directors exercises overall responsibility for the policies, programs and direction of World Wildlife Fund and provides advice and counsel on a broad range of policy and operational matters. The composition of the board, whose members are elected for three-year terms, is chosen to reflect a broad range of scientific and other expertise, with all members having a strong and demonstrated commitment to nature conservation. Board members observe and annually sign WWF's conflict of interest policy.
Vice-ChairNeville Isdell
Former Chairman Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
The Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta, GA
Board Members
Peter Crane Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
New Haven, CT?
Jared Diamond Professor, Geography
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Leonardo DiCaprio Founder
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
Christopher Dodd Chairman & CEO
MPAA
Connecticut
Pamela Ebsworth Bellevue, WA
Mohamed T. El-Ashry Senior Fellow
UN Foundation
Washington, DC
Exequiel Ezcurra Director
University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS)
Riverside, CA
Marshall Field President
Old Mountain Company
Chicago, IL
John Ford Chair
Marts and Lundy, Inc.
Bainbridge Island, WA
Charles Holliday Chairman
Bank of America Corporation
New York, NY
Urs Hölzle Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure
Google
Mountain View, CA
Shelly Lazarus
Robert Litterman Partner
Kepos Capital
New York, NY
Thomas Lovejoy Biodiversity Chair
Heinz Center
Washington, DC
Steve Luczo
Perk Perkins CEO
The Orvis Company, Inc.
Manchester, VT
Michael Philipp Chairman
Reykjavik Geothermal, Ltd.
Iceland
Roger W. Sant Chairman Emeritus and Co-Founder
The AES Corporation
Washington, DC
Honorary Directors
Founder Chairman Emeritus
Russell E. Train
World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC
Chairman Emeritus
William K. Reilly
Founding Partner
Aqua International Partners
San Francisco, CA
Director Emeritus
Bruce Babbitt
President
Raintree Ventures
Washington, DC
Director Emeritus
Edward P. Bass
Founding Trustee
Philecology Trust
Fort Worth, TX
Director Emerita
Kathryn S. Fuller
Washington, DC
Director Emeritus
Hunter Lewis
Cofounder and Senior Managing Director
Cambridge Associates
Charlottesville, VA
Director Emerita
Adrienne Mars
Mars Foundation
Jackson, WY
Director Emeritus
Gordon Orians
Professor Emeritus
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Director Emerita
Anne Sidamon-Eristoff
Chairwoman Emerita
American Museum of Natural History
New York, NY
BRUCE BABBITT served as Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001, as Governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987 and as Attorney General of Arizona from 1975 to 1978. As Governor Babbitt brought environmental and resource management to the forefront in Arizona. He personally negotiated and steered to passage the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980, which remains the most comprehensive water regulatory system in the nation. He was also responsible for creation of the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and a major expansion of the state park system. Appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Clinton in 1993, Babbitt served for eight years, during which he led in the creation of the forest plan in the Pacific Northwest, restoration of the Florida Everglades, passage of the California Desert Protection Act, and legislation for the National Wildlife Refuge system. As a certified fire fighter, Babbitt brought his front line experience to creating a new federal wild land fire policy that emphasizes the role of fire in maintenance and restoration of natural ecosystems. He pioneered the use of habitat conservation plans under the Endangered Species Act and worked with President Clinton to create twenty two new national monuments, including the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in Utah. Babbitt is perhaps best remembered by American schoolchildren as the Secretary who brought the wolves back to Yellowstone. He is the author of “Cities in the Wilderness” recently issued by Island Press, in which he lays out a new vision of land use in America. Babbitt resides in Washington with his wife, Hattie, a former Ambassador to the Organization of American States. They have two children, Christopher, a lawyer residing in San Francisco, and T.J. a teacher in the Los Angeles public school system.
EDWARD P. BASS is extensively involved in business, conservation and ranching. A committed environmentalist, his long-time interest in the sciences is evidenced by the numerous national and international education and conservation organizations in which he participates. He is Director Emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund, on whose board he served from 1988 to 2007. In addition, he serves on the Executive Committees of the New York Botanical Garden and the Botanical Research Institute of Texas and is an Honorary Trustee of the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation. He is founding trustee of the Philecology Trust, created in 1986 to fund selected non-profit ecological interests, and of the Philecology Foundation, established in 2007. A co-founder of Biosphere 2 near Tucson, Arizona, Mr. Bass helped guide that organization’s transition to a major research center of the University of Arizona. In 2009, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Arizona in recognition of his contributions to the study of the earth’s environment. He was named a Successor Trustee of his alma mater Yale University in 2001 and Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation in 2011. In addition, he is an active member of the Yale Corporation's Building and Grounds Committee. He also serves as co-Chair of the Leadership Council of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, as a member and former founding Chair of the External Advisory Board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, and as former Chair of the Yale University Council Committee on the Peabody Museum. Closer to home, Mr. Bass has been a leader in the redevelopment of downtown Fort Worth in what has been recognized as one of the most successful urban revitalization efforts in America. An avid rancher, he is active in the direction of personal and family interests, including holdings in Texas and the Flint Hills of Kansas, where the focus is on the sustainable management of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem using controlled burning and seasonal cattle grazing as rangeland management tools.
PETER CRANE is Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. His work focuses on the diversity of plant life – its origin, fossil history, current status, conservation and use. From 1982 to 1999 he was at the Field Museum in Chicago, and from 1992 to 1999 served as Director with overall responsibility for the Museum’s scientific programmes. From 1999 to 2006 he was Director of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the largest, most prestigious and influential botanical gardens in the world. He returned to Chicago in 2006 as the John and Marion Sullivan University Professor at The University of Chicago, before being appointed at Yale in 2009. Peter Crane was elected to the Royal Society – the UK academy of sciences in 1998 and was knighted in the UK for services to horticulture and conservation in 2004. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a Member of the German Academy Leopoldina. He is the recipient of several honorary degrees, including an honorary doctorate of science from Cambridge University, and currently serves on the Board of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
BRENDA S. DAVIS of Bozeman, Montana retired in 2007 from Johnson & Johnson where she was Corporate Compliance Officer and Vice President, Technical Resources. She had global responsibility for Quality & Compliance, Sales & Marketing Compliance, Environmental Affairs, Health & Safety, Operations Preparedness, Sterilization Science and Energy Management and was a member of the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Operating Group and the Public Policy Advisory Committee of the J&J Board of Directors. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, served in the Cabinet of New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, and was a senior staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. She serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society (former chairman), Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) and chairs the WWF Northern Great Plains Advisory Committee. She was previously a trustee of The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Community Foundation of New Jersey and former chairman of the board of the New Jersey Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Dr. Davis received a BA from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of California, Berkeley.
JARED DIAMOND is a conservation biologist, a professor of geography at the University of California in Los Angeles, and a research associate in ornithology at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and at the American Museum of Natural History. He has worked as a consultant in conservation and national park planning in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia. Dr. Diamond’s four books for a popular audience are The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel; Why Is Sex Fun?; and Collapse. He has published hundreds of research papers on a broad range of scientific topics. A fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been awarded a Burr Medal from the National Geographic Society, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Pulitzer Prize, Japan’s Cosmos Prize, Britain’s Science Book Prize (twice), the National Medal of Science, and the Tyler Prize. He received a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from Cambridge University in England.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO is an actor, environmentalist and philanthropist. In 1998, he created the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation to support organizations and initiatives dedicated to securing a sustainable future for our planet. Since that time, Leonardo has built longstanding relationships with some of the great leaders and thinkers on the planet, staying continually engaged and active on the most pressing issues we face – climate change, access to clean water, protecting biodiversity, oceans conservation and disaster relief. In addition to WWF, Leonardo sits on the board of several organizations dedicated to these issues including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Global Green USA and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Over the last 12 years, Leonardo has worked strategically to shift public awareness on key issues. Through the Foundation, Leonardo has produced a number of media projects that communicate the urgency of the issues to the public, including two short web films Water Planet and Global Warning, which have been viewed by people around the world. He dedicated half of his website (www.leonardodicaprio.org) to environmental news and content and is now building his social media channels in an effort to reach the public more directly. In 2007 (after 4 years of development), Leo released his first feature length documentary 11th Hour, a hard hitting and inspiring film that features over 50 of the worlds leading experts on environmental issues and the exciting solutions that can save our planet and humanity. DiCaprio is an award-winning actor and a three-time Academy Award® nominee, starring in movies such as Inception, Blood Diamond and the Oscar®-winning Best Picture, The Departed. In addition to his acting work, DiCaprio created his own production company, Appian Way. Under the Appian Way banner, he wrote, produced and narrated the acclaimed environmentally themed documentary The 11th Hour.
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD served as a United States Senator from the state of Connecticut for thirty years, after serving for six years in the House of Representatives. As a key participant in nearly every major national policy debate over the past three decades, Senator Dodd authored major legislation in the areas of education, health, financial services, foreign policy, and election reform. He played a decisive role in crafting significant health care reform with the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He was also a principal author of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, crafted in the wake of one of the worst economic downturns in history. Throughout his years in public office, Senator Dodd worked to ensure the safety of Connecticut’s natural treasures by fighting the construction of a natural gas facility on Long Island Sound and the designation of Connecticut’s Eight Mile River as a National Wild and Scenic River. Senator Dodd is perhaps best known for bringing much-needed attention to children’s and education issues. He formed the first children’s caucus in the Senate, authored the first child care legislation since World War II, and wrote the Family and Medical Leave Act, which has helped ensure that 100 million Americans didn’t have to choose between the jobs they need and the families they love. A former senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Dodd is a recognized expert on Latin America; he speaks Spanish fluently and lived in the Dominican Republic as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years. Senator Dodd is the current Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America.
PAMELA EBSWORTH is a conservationist and has traveled extensively in countries where WWF has projects. Ms. Ebsworth is a former director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and has been a member of the Collector’s Committee of the National Gallery of Art. Presently she serves on the board of the Seattle Art Museum. She is founder and president of Friends of Bhutan’s Culture, a nonprofit organization working in partnership with the Royal Government of Bhutan to help preserve the cultural heritage of this Himalayan Kingdom.
MOHAMED T. EL-ASHRY is Senior Fellow with the UN Foundation and Facilitator of the Global Leadership for Climate Action (GLCA) which he organized in 2007. Its membership includes 13 former Presidents and Prime-Ministers and 12 other global leaders. Dr. El-Ashry served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), which he helped to establish, from 1994 to 2003. He also served as Chairman of the GEF during its Pilot Phase (1991-1994). Prior to joining the GEF he served as Chief Environmental Adviser to the President and Director of the Environment Department at the World Bank, as Senior Vice President of the World Resources Institute (WRI), and as Director of Environmental Quality with the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has held teaching and research positions at Cairo University, Pan-American-U.A.R. Oil Company, Wilkes University and the Environmental Defense Fund. He has also served as Senior Environmental Adviser to UNDP, as Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the 1992 U.N. Earth Summit, and as a member of a number of International Commissions and Task Forces including the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on System-wide Coherence, the International Commission on Climate Change and Development, and the World Water Commission. He is also the Chairman of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21). Dr. El-Ashry received his B.S. Degree with honors in 1959 from the University of Cairo and M.S. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees in Geology from the University of Illinois. He is the editor and co-author of three books and has published or presented more than 250 papers. Dr. El-Ashry is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Third World and African Academies of Sciences and is listed in American Men and Women of Science and Men of Achievement. He has received a number of international honors and awards including the Champions of the Earth and the Haub Prize for International Environmental Diplomacy. He serves on the Boards of a number of not-for-profit organizations including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Resources for the Future.
EXEQUIEL EZCURRA obtained a Ph.D. at the University College of North Wales, studying the vegetation, climate, and hydrology of the Gran Desierto in Northern Mexico. Since then he has oriented his research towards the ecology of coastal deserts, ocean-land interactions, and conservation biology in the Sea of Cortés. He has received numerous awards for his work in research, education, and conservation in Mexico, including the 1994 Conservation Biology International Award, the 1999 Research Award from Mexico’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, and the 2006 Pew Fellowship on Marine Conservation, among many others. In 1994, he was designated Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES). He has been member of the editorial board of various ecological journals and book series, and was president of Mexico’s National Institute of Ecology from 2001 to 2005. He has lectured in various universities in Mexico, Spain, Argentina, the U.S., and Uruguay. Exequiel has published more than 170 research articles, book chapters, and books, including two books on the ecology of the Sea of Cortés, plus a large number of essays and articles for newspapers and popular journals. As research director at the San Diego Natural History Museum he developed the scientific script of the giant-screen nature film Ocean Oasis, which won the 2001 Jackson Hole Nature Film Award and the 2002 BBC Wildscreen Award, and developed three successful exhibits on the natural history of Baja California, the Sea of Cortés, and Southern California. Currently, he is the Director of the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States(UC MEXUS) and Professor of Ecology at the University of California, Riverside, and adjunct faculty at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
MARSHALL FIELD is chairman of The Field Corporation, established in 1984. Mr. Field is a board member of several conservation and civic organizations. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical, served two terms as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was chairman of the board of the Terra Foundation and Nicholas School of Environment. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in fine arts.
JOHN B. FORD John B. Ford serves as chair of the board of Marts & Lundy, a fundraising consulting firm based in New Jersey. Prior to joining Marts & Lundy, Mr. Ford served for 35 years as a development officer in higher education. He began his career at Caltech, moved to The University of Chicago, and returned in 1977 to his alma mater, Stanford University, as the director of major gifts for Stanford Medical Center. Over the next decade, he assumed increasing responsibility for Stanford's development activities and was named vice president for development in 1988. In that role, he led all fundraising for Stanford and directed the first billion dollar campaign in higher education. In 2005, Mr. Ford was promoted to senior vice president for university resources was also named executive vice chair of The Stanford Challenge, a $4.3 billion fundraising campaign. During his tenure as an officer of the university, annual gift receipts to Stanford increased from approximately $150 million to more than $900 million. For the past four years, Mr. Ford has served as the senior philanthropic adviser to the ClimateWorks Foundation based in San Francisco. Mr. Ford holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University.
KATHRYN S. FULLER is currently the chair National Museum of Natural History and a managing partner in Doyle Property Partners. Previously, Ms. Fuller was president and chief executive of World Wildlife Fund from 1989 to 2005. Prior to that, she was executive vice president, general counsel and director of WWF's programs in public policy and wildlife trade monitoring. Before joining WWF, she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, first in the Office of Legal Counsel, then as a trial attorney in the Land and Natural Resources Division, where she helped create the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section. She became chief of the section in 1981 and in 1992 was a special adviser to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Ms. Fuller received her BA in English and American literature from Brown University. She earned a law degree with honors from the University of Texas and pursued graduate studies in marine, estuarine and environmental science at the University of Maryland. Ms. Fuller serves on a number of boards, including Alcoa, the Summit Foundation, Resources for the Future, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Greater Himalayas Foundation.
CHARLES O. HOLLIDAY, JR. is chairman of the board of directors of Bank of America. He has served as a director since September 2009. He is the former chairman of the board of directors of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., a position he had held for approximately 10 years. He served as chief executive officer of DuPont from 1998 until 2008. He joined DuPont in 1970 as an engineer and held various positions throughout his tenure. Since 2007, Holliday has served as a member of the board of directors of Deere & Co. and as a member of the board's audit and corporate governance committees. He is chairman emeritus of Catalyst, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for women and business, and chairman emeritus of the board of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization working to ensure U.S. prosperity. Holliday is a founding member of the International Business Council and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He also previously served as chairman of the following organizations: the Business Roundtable's Task Force for Environment, Technology and Economy, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, The Business Council, and the Society of Chemical Industry - American Section. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee and received honorary doctorates from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York and from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
URS HÖLZLE is Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure at Google. In this capacity, Urs oversees the design and operation of the servers, networks, and data centers that power Google's services. Through efficiency innovations, Urs and his team have reduced the energy used by Google data centers to less than 50% of the industry average. In addition, Urs manages many of Google's other green initiatives and oversees the company's involvement with the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, which Google co-founded with Intel and WWF. Urs grew up in Switzerland -- selling WWF stamps to raise money! -- and received a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich and a Ph.D. from Stanford. During the 1990s, Urs invented fundamental techniques used in most of today's Java compilers and taught computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
NEVILLE ISDELL is the former chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company where he worked for 43 years. Mr. Isdell took the world’s largest beverage company to new heights during his tenure. He expanded on the company’s proud legacy of corporate responsibility by embedding sustainability throughout every facet of the organization and helping ensure its role as a community-connected twenty-first century enterprise. These efforts resulted in The Coca-Cola Company’s return to Fortune’s “World Most Admired Companies” list in 2006. In 2009, the company moved up to the #12 spot in the global ranking. A native of Ireland, Mr. Isdell joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1966 in Zambia. In 1972, he became general manager of Coca-Cola Bottling of Johannesburg. Mr. Isdell was named region manager for Australia in 1980. In 1981, he became president of the bottling joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and San Miguel Corporation in the Philippines. In 1985, he became president of the company’s Central European Division. In 1989, he was elected senior vice president of the company and appointed president of the Northeast Europe/Africa Group and led the company’s re-entry into new markets in India, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. In 1995, he was named president of the Greater Europe Group. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Isdell served as chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Plc in Great Britain. He retired as vice chairman of Coca-Cola HBC in December 2001. From January 2002 to May 2004, Mr. Isdell was an international consultant to The Coca-Cola Company. In June 2004, Mr. Isdell came out of retirement to lead The Coca-Cola Company as chairman and CEO. Mr. Isdell serves on the boards of a number of NGOs, including CSIS and the World Wildlife Fund. Mr. Isdell also chairs the Investment Climate Facility and is a member of the Board of Directors of General Motors. He is a recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award. Mr. Isdell received a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the University of Cape Town and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School PMD. He is the recipient of four honorary degrees.
SHELLY LAZARUS rose through the ranks of Ogilvy & Mather assuming positions of increasing responsibility in the management of the company, including president of O&M Direct North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York, Ogilvy & Mather North America. She became CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in 1996. Shelly has been a frequent industry honoree. Advertising Women of New York selected Shelly as its Woman of the Year in 1994. She was honored by Women in Communications with their Matrix Award in 1995, was named Business Woman of the Year by the New York City Partnership in 1996, and Woman of the Year in 2002 by the Direct Marketing Association. She has appeared in Fortune magazine’s annual ranking of America’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business since the list’s inception in 1998. She was the first woman to receive Columbia Business School’s Distinguished Leader in Business Award, as well as the Advertising Educational Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also a member of the Direct Marketing Association’s Hall of Fame. Ms. Lazarus serves on many boards including General Electric, Merck, New York Presbyterian Hospital, World Wildlife Fund, American Museum of Natural History, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School where she received her MBA; and served for five years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Smith College, her alma mater. She has also served as Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Shelly is the wife of Dr. George Lazarus, a New York pediatrician, and mother to their three grown children.
HUNTER LEWIS is cofounder and former CEO of the investment and financial firm Cambridge Associates, LLC. He served on the WWF Board for seventeen years between 1984 and 2001, eleven of them as Treasurer and three as chairman of the Nominating Committee, as well as serving for three years on the WWF-International board, and a number of years on the National Council. He has written several books on economics and moral philosophy, including. Where Keynes Went Wrong, Are The Rich Necessary?, A Question of Values, and edited several more . He has also written for the New York Times, the Times of London, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Forbes. Lewis has been active in the environmental and natural health fields. In addition to his WWF service, he has been president of the Alliance for Natural Health-USA, chairman of the National Environmental Trust, chairman of the Worldwatch Institute, chairman of Shelburne Farms, member of the Advisory Board of Environmental Health Sciences, and director of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. In addition to natural health and the environment boards, he has also been president of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (a graduate research consortium of over 150 American universities), chairman of Dumbarton Oaks (affiliate of Harvard University) , director of the Morgan Museum and Library, director of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), director of the Groton School, and member of the World Bank Pension Finance Committee. Mr. Lewis received a BA from Harvard College.
LAWRENCE H. LINDEN is the Founder and Trustee of the Linden Trust for Conservation, which uses state-of-the art financial advice and support to build environmental markets and to structure and execute deals in conservation finance. In 2008, he retired as Managing Director and former General Partner of Goldman Sachs and Company, where he was a leader of the build-out of the technology, clearance and settlement, accounting, risk management and compliance infrastructure for the firm’s global expansion in the 1990’s. Earlier, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on the industrial, technology, and financial sectors. From 1978 to 1981, he was a member of the White House staff working on issues relating to energy, transportation, and the environment. He is a member and former chairman of the board of trustees of Resources for the Future, a member of several advisory committees at MIT, where he has established the Linden Earth Systems fellowships, and, in the business world, a member of the Board of Directors of TIAA, the operating arm of the TIAA-CREF complex, the largest private pension fund in the world. Mr. Linden received a BSE from Princeton University and an SM and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ROBERT LITTERMAN co-developed the Black-Litterman Global Asset Allocation Model with the late Fischer Black. He has a Ph.D in economics from the University of Minnesota, and taught at MIT and worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis before moving to Goldman Sachs in 1986. Bob retired at the end of 2009 after heading the firm’s risk department and heading the quantitative group in the asset management division. Bob was one of the original inductees into Risk Mangazine's Risk Hall of Fame. Bob received the Nicholas Molodovsky Award from the CFA in 2008 and was also the recipient of the 2008 International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE), Financial Engineer of the Year award. He was appointed adviser to the Singapore GIC Board Investment Committee and the Risk Committee from 2004 to 2010. Bob currently serves on the boards of the World Wildlife Fund, the Commonfund, and the Sloan Foundation. He also serves as advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Kepos Capital. Bob and his wife Mary live in Short Hills, New Jersey.
THOMAS LOVEJOY is an innovative and accomplished conservation biologist who coined the term “biological diversity”. He currently holds the Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC. He served as President of the Heinz Center from 2002-2008. Before assuming this position, Lovejoy was the World Bank’s Chief Biodiversity Advisor and Lead Specialist for Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation. In 2010 he was elected Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University (initially he will devote 50% of his time to the Heinz Center). Spanning the political spectrum, Lovejoy has served on science and environmental councils under the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. At the core of these many influential positions are Lovejoy’s seminal ideas, which have formed and strengthened the field of conservation biology. In the 1980s, he brought international attention to the world’s tropical rainforests, and in particular, the Brazilian Amazon, where he has worked since 1965. Lovejoy also developed the now ubiquitous “debt-for-nature” swap programs and led the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project. He also founded the series Nature, the popular long-term series on public television. In 2001, Lovejoy was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. In 2009 he was the winner of BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology Category. In 2009 he was appointed Conservation Fellow by the National Geographic. Lovejoy holds B.S. and Ph.D (biology) degrees from Yale University.
STEVE LUCZO, Seagate’s chairman of the board, was appointed president and chief executive officer in January 2009. This returned Luczo to the president and CEO role he held at Seagate from 1998 to 2004. Luczo was elected chief executive officer and appointed as a member of Seagate's board of directors in 1998, later becoming chairman of the board in June 2002. The company separated the roles of chairman and CEO in July 2004, with Luczo continuing to serve as chairman of Seagate’s board of directors. Previously, Luczo was president and chief operating officer with overall operating responsibility for Seagate’s disc drive development, manufacturing, sales and marketing, component and quality organizations. Luczo joined Seagate in 1993 as senior vice president of corporate development. He was responsible for a number of strategic acquisitions and equity investments for Seagate, including the company’s merger with Veritas in 2000, which resulted in the privatization of the company. Prior to joining Seagate, Luczo spent 10 years in investment banking. During this period, Luczo acted as an advisor to Seagate on numerous transactions. Luczo received an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, after completing his undergraduate work at Stanford University, where he received his BA degree in Economics and Psychology. In addition, Luczo is very active in philanthropic endeavors, and is passionate about sports and the creative arts. He is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Board, All-Stars Helping Kids Board and the Board of SurfAid International.
ADRIENNE MARS is a trustee and director of the Mars Foundation, vice chairman of the Wheaton College Board of Trustees, and a member of the national board of the National Air and Space Museum. She is a former member of the national board of the Smithsonian Institution and a former trustee of Chatham Hall School. She served on the WWF Board of Directors for 13 years, three as Secretary, between 1988 and 2002. She has been a member of the 1001 Nature Trust since 1979. Mrs. Mars is an alumna of Wheaton College, from which she received an honorary degree in 1993.
PAMELA MATSON is the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies, and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Dr. Matson is an interdisciplinary Earth scientist who works to reconcile the needs of people and the planet in the 21st century. Her research addresses a range of environment and sustainability issues, including sustainability of agricultural systems; vulnerability of particular people and places to climate change; the consequences of tropical deforestation on atmosphere, climate and water systems; and the environmental consequences of global change in the nitrogen and carbon cycles. With multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, managers, and decision makers, she has worked to develop agricultural approaches that reduce environmental impacts while maintaining livelihoods and human wellbeing. Dr. Matson is the author of numerous scientific publications and books, including the National Research Council volume titled "Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability" and the just completed “Seeds of Sustainability.” A MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the American Academy of Arts and Science, she is the founding co-chair of the National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability, a past president of the Ecological Society of America, serves on the Boards of the World Wildlife Fund and ClimateWorks. As a member of the National Academies' Committee on America's Climate Choices and chair of the panel on Advancing the Science of Climate Change, she recently completed the panel report on "Advancing the Science of Climate Change". At Stanford, she is the dean of the School of Earth Sciences, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for Environment, and co-leads the Initiative on Environment and Sustainability, an effort that brings together faculty from around the university to help solve critical resource and environment challenges of the century. She is also the scientific director of the Leopold Leadership Program, a program that provides leadership and communications training to environmental scientists and analysts.
GORDON ORIANS is a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, where he has been since 1960. An ecologist with experience in Central and South America, East Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Northwest, he has served on the Board of World Wildlife Fund for 12 years. An investigator in the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and animal behavior, he is the author of many publications, including a widely used biology textbook. Dr. Orians is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is past chairman of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Research Council. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
PERK PERKINS has led Orvis as CEO since November 1992. Under his guidance, the company has grown from $88 million in sales in 1992 to nearly $280 million in 2009. The company simultaneously refined its brand and product line while expanding its sales channels and services business and in so doing has come to be recognized as one of the most respected lifestyle brands in America, earning the industry's highest awards in both catalog and Internet marketing. Perk began work at Orvis in 1977 as a Catalog Copywriter. He has since held many other positions that have allowed him to experience the company first-hand, including managing export sales; opening and managing the company’s first remote store in San Francisco; President of Orvis UK; Vice President of Operations; President of Early Winters, an Orvis subsidiary; Vice President, Merchandising; President, Orvis Mail Order; and President and CEO of The Orvis Company. Perk is an avid and accomplished fly fisherman, wingshooter, canoeist, cross-country skier, and bird watcher. He has led Orvis’s renowned support of conservation (5% of pretax profits) with the mantra “If we are going to benefit from our natural resources, we must be willing to take action to protect them.” For the last 25 years, he has served on numerous corporate, conservation and civic boards. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy of Montana (formerly serving 9 years on TNC’s Worldwide Board holding Vice Chair position), Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Trout Unlimited’s Coldwater Conservation Fund, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Advisory Council, and the Nature Conservancy Caribbean Program. Perk graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1975 and has completed Harvard University's Executive Management Program.
MICHAEL PHILIPP is the Chairman of Reykjavik Geothermal, Ltd., a geothermal power development company based in Iceland. Reykjavik Geothermal (RG) is focused on large scale projects in Emerging Markets, primarily East Africa, Asia Pacific and the Caribbean. RG has offices in Reykjavik, New York, Atlanta, Abu Dhabi, Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea. Michael is also the Managing Partner of Ambata Capital Partners, an international advisory and investment firm based in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco. Ambata Capital Partners focuses on Clean Energy and Sustainability in Emerging Markets and is a significant shareholder in Reykjavik Geothermal, Ltd. Michael was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Europe, Middle East and Africa, and a Member of the Group Executive Board of Credit Suisse from 2005 to 2008. During his tenure as Chairman and CEO, he expanded Credit Suisse's commitment to Emerging Markets, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. Michael sponsored the formation of Credit Suisse Saudi Arabia and a joint venture with Standard Bank in South Africa. Michael was also the Chairman of the Environmental Business Group. Michael is currently on the Board of the World Wildlife Fund in the U.S. and the Board of the Fisheries Conservation Foundation. Michael is also the Chairman of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, which represents 58 developing countries in the UNFCCC negotiations for REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). Michael holds a B.A. in Fine Arts, an M.B.A. in Finance, and an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts.
WILLIAM K. REILLY is a Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners, LP, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy, and a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership. Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), president of the World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989), and director of the Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth from (1972-1973). He was head of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund, Chairman of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, Co-Chairman of the Board for the Global Water Challenge, Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Policy Center Energy Project, and a Director of the Packard Foundation and the National Geographic Society. He also serves on the Board of Directors of DuPont, ConocoPhillips, Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future Holdings, for which he serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Advisory Board. In May 2010, Mr. Reilly was appointed by President Obama to Co-Chair the National Commission on the BP Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.
CARTER ROBERTS, is the President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund. His path to conservation began with a love for climbing mountains. En route, he worked for Proctor and Gamble and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He went on to lead international and science programs at The Nature Conservancy before coming to WWF in 2004. With inspiration from nature, and a background in business, he has sought to solve problems by creatively influencing the way markets and businesses operate. To this end, he has tracked the rarest creatures to the far ends of the world, has worked with communities and heads of state in North America, Africa, Latin America and Asia, and has signed agreements with some of the world’s largest corporations to set new industry standards for resource efficiency. Carter has written both academic papers and informal blogs for numerous publications ranging from Fast Company to Conservation Letters. He serves on the boards of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, a collaboration between Imperial College and the London School of Economics; InterAction, a consortium of development and environmental NGOs seeking a holistic approach to foreign assistance; and the Nicholas Institute at Duke University.
VIRGINIA SALL is a co-founder and director of Sall Family Foundation. Ms. Sall has studied and worked in not-for-profit organizations for over 25 years. Her focus is on complex local-to-global organizations addressing global health, conservation, and the environment – especially where these intersect to support healthy, sustainable lives for people in the developing world. Ms. Sall currently serves on the boards of directors for CARE USA and CARE International, as well as the board of advisors for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. She is a co-founder and trustee of Cary Academy, an innovative middle and high school in North Carolina. Ms. Sall volunteered for La Leche League to help mothers in her community breastfeed their babies; she also served on the board of La Leche League International, chaired the organization, and represented La Leche League International at the United Nations. She has served on the board of the School of Nursing Foundation at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, she is a member of the Advisory Council for the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Sall has worked as a systems programmer, software developer, technical consultant and statistical software trainer. She holds a B.A. in physics from Rice University and studied biostatistics at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
CRISTIÁN SAMPER, is the Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, which hosts seven million visitors a year and holds a collection of 126 million specimens and artifacts. A scientist and an international authority on conservation biology and environmental policy, he has dedicated the majority of his career to understanding and protecting Earth’s biological diversity. He has also served as Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and was deputy director and staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Samper was the founding director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, the national biodiversity research institute of Colombia, and Chairman of the scientific advisory body of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. His devotion to Colombia’s ecological preservation earned him the country’s National Medal of the Environment in 2001. He is a member of the boards of the American Association of Museums, the Nature Conservancy, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program, and the World Wildlife Fund. He is also a member of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers and Bioversity International’s Board of Trustees. Born in San José, Costa Rica, and raised in Colombia, Samper studied biology at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in biology from Harvard University.
ROGER W. SANT is Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The AES Corporation. Prior to starting AES in 1981, Mr. Sant was Assistant Administrator for Energy Conservation and the Environment at the Federal Energy Administration. He was also the Director of the Energy Productivity Center, an energy research organization affiliated with the Mellon Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University. Mr. Sant is Chairman of The Summit Foundation and the Summit Fund of Washington. He is Co-Chair of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., which he earlier chaired from 1994 to 2000. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, having served as its First Chairman. He is Vice-Chairman of the National Museum of Natural History, and is a member of the boards of the National Symphony Orchestra and the D.C. College Access Program. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Marriott International from 1994 to 2006. Mr. Sant received a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is co-author of Creating Abundance – America’s Least-Cost Energy Strategy (1982).
ANNE P. SIDAMON ERISTOFF is a consulting member of the Distribution Committee of the New York Community Trust. She is a trustee and chairwoman emerita of the American Museum of Natural History, and also serves on the boards of the Black Rock Forest Consortium, the God Bless America Fund, the Highland Falls Public Library, the Greenacre Foundation, and the Storm King Art Center. She joined the board of The Conservation Foundation in 1973 and was secretary of the WWF Board of Directors from 1985 to 1994. Mrs. Sidamon-Eristoff has participated in WWF project inspection trips to Bolivia, Brazil, Thailand, Ecuador, Guatemala, Antarctica, Mexico, Belize, and Alaska. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.
RUSSELL E. TRAIN was elected WWF chairman emeritus in September 1994 and served as chairman of the WWF National Council from 1994 to 2001. He became chairman of the board of directors of World Wildlife Fund and of The Conservation Foundation in 1985, continuing in that position when the two institutions merged formally as WWF in 1990. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Train had been president of WWF for seven years (and had been a founding trustee in 1961). He served as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1973 to 1977, first chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President from 1970 to 1973, undersecretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1969 to 1970, and president of The Conservation Foundation from 1965 to 1969. Previously, he served as a judge of the Tax Court of the United States from 1957 to 1965. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 in recognition of his work in conservation. Mr. Train has been a trustee or director of numerous nonprofit organizations as well as several for profit organizations. He received a BA from Princeton University and a JD from Columbia University.
