World Wildlife Fund

Board Policy Statement

Composed of leaders from the scientific, conservation and business communities, the WWF board of directors exercises overall responsibility for the polices, 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. The current chairman of the board is Bruce Babbitt, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona.

	Fabiola Arredondo Managing Partner Siempre Holdings New York, NY
	Pamela Daley Senior Vice President Corporate Business Development General Electric Fairfield, CT
	Jeremy Jackson Professor of Oceanography Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California at San Diego San Diego, CA
	S. Curtis Johnson Chairman JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Sturtevant, WI
	Robert Litterman Advisory Director Goldman Sachs New York, NY
	Pamela Matson Dean, School of Earth Sciences Stanford University Stanford, CA
	Virginia Sall Cary, NC
	David Bonderman Principal, General Partner, and Founder Texas Pacific Group Fort Worth, TX
	Lavinia Currier President Sacharuna Foundation The Plains, VA
	Brenda S. Davis Bozeman, MT
	Geeske Joel Palo Alto, CA
	Shelly Lazarus Chairman and CEO Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide New York, NY
	Thomas Lovejoy President Heinz Center Washington, DC
	Leigh H. Perkins CEO The Orvis Company, Inc. Manchester, VT
	Cristián Samper Director National Museum of Natural History Washington D.C.
	Thomas Tusher Owner, Blanket Bay Lodge (N.Z.) Retired President and COO Levi Strauss & Co. Ross, CA

Emeriti

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
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

Fabiola Arredondo is the Managing Partner of Siempre Holdings, a private investment firm based in New York. Prior to this she held senior operating positions at Yahoo!, the BBC, and Bertelsmann A.G. She is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Experian Group plc, Bankinter, S.A., and Rodale Inc., and a Board Trustee of Sesame Workshop. She was formerly a Non-Executive Director of BOC Group plc and Intelsat Corporation.
Fabiola has a BA degree from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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 moments, 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.

David Bonderman  is a founder of TPG. Mr. Bonderman serves as a principal and founding partner of the firm. TPG invests primarily in restructurings, recapitalizations and buyouts in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. TPG and its affiliates have under management more than $36 billion of equity capital and have investments with board representation in these companies. Portfolio companies controlled by TPG have combined revenues of over $79 billion, operate in over 120 countries and employ over 340,000 people. Among the portfolio companies of TPG, Newbridge, and its principals are: J. Crew; Burger King; Gemalto, N.V.; ON Semiconductor; Seagate Technology; Ryanair; Debenhams; MEMC; Shenzhen Development Bank and Raffles Holdings, Ltd. Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Mr. Bonderman was Chief Operating Officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. (now doing business as Keystone, Inc.) in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to joining RMBG in 1983, Mr. Bonderman was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in corporate, securities, bankruptcy and antitrust litigation. From 1969 to 1970, Mr. Bonderman was a Fellow in Foreign and Comparative Law in conjunction with Harvard University and from 1968 to 1969, he was Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. From 1967 to 1968, Mr. Bonderman was Assistant Professor at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans. Mr. Bonderman serves on the Boards of the following public companies: Burger King Holdings, Inc.; CoStar Group, Inc.; Gemalto N.V.; and Ryanair Holdings, plc, of which he is Chairman. He also serves on the Boards of The Wilderness Society, the Grand Canyon Trust, the World Wildlife Fund, The University of Washington Foundation and the American Himalayan Foundation. Mr. Bonderman graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1966. He was a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon Fellow. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle.

Lavinia Currier of The Plains, Virginia, is an active conservationist and farmer in Hawaii, Colorado, and Virginia. She is president of the Sacharuna Foundation and has had a long involvement with Tibet issues. A filmmaker, she has traveled often with WWF to the Dzanga-Sangha region in the Central African Republic with an interest in filming the BaAka pygmies. She wrote and directed the feature film A Passion in the Desert.

Pamela Daley of Southport, CT is Senior Vice President for Corporate Business Development at General Electric Company. General Electric is a diversified services, technology, and manufacturing company active in the fields of broadcasting, commercial finance, consumer finance, consumer and industrial products, energy, equipment management, healthcare technology, infrastructure, and transportation. Previously, she served the company as Vice President and Senior Counsel for Transactions. Before arriving at GE in 1989, Miss Daley was a partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Philadelphia, where she specialized in tax-oriented financings and commercial transactions. From 1982 to 1989, she was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught federal income taxation of partners and partnerships. Miss Daley is a director of General Electric Capital Corporation, GE Capital Services, Inc., the GE Foundation, and The Juilliard School, and is a past director of Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW). She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She received a bachelor's degree in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University, and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.
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 (chairman), Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and is 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 M. Diamond  of Los Angeles, California, 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

Marshall Field  of Chicago, Illinois, is chairman of the Field Corporation, established in 1984. He currently serves as Chairman of WWF's National Council and was a WWF Director for 17 years between 1974 and 2002. He was chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center until November 1998, and served two terms as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chairman of the board of the Terra Foundation, he also is vice chairman of the board of Duke School of Environment and a board member of several conservation and civic organizations. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in fine arts.

Jeremy Jackson  of La Jolla, California, is the William E. and Mary B. Ritter Professor of Oceanography and director of the Geosciences Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama. From 1973 to 1985 he was professor of ecology at The Johns Hopkins University. His current research concerns long-term consequences of historical overfishing in the ocean. Other interests include the ecological and evolutionary consequences of the gradual formation of the Isthmus of Panama, the ecology of coral reefs, and speciation in the sea. He has written more than 100 scientific publications and 5 books, and is currently involved in a multimedia project in Hollywood to convey ocean problems to mass media audiences. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. Jackson received the Secretary's Gold Medal for Exceptional Service from the Smithsonian Institution in 1997, and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering in 2002. His work on overfishing was chosen by Discover magazine as the outstanding environmental discovery of 2001. Dr. Jackson received a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's degree in geology from George Washington University and a doctorate in geology and biology from Yale University.

Geeske Joel  of Palo Alto, California, was born in Kiel, Germany, where she grew up in a small town on Schleswig-Holstein's countryside playing with her dog and working on neighboring farms. Inspired by her father who had studied biology and had always emphasized nature and science, Dr. Joel majored in Biology at a local high school where she graduated as class valedictorian. During that time, Dr. Joel also spent one year as an exchange student in Westminster, Colorado from which she graduated with honors. Subsequently, Dr. Joel studied Biology and Geoecology at the University of Bayreuth. In 1988, she received a Fulbright Fellowship, which led to a Master's and Ph.D in Biology from Stanford University. Her thesis examined the effect of climate change on plant communities. Since she was a young child living in Europe, Dr. Joel has followed WWF's work and has been a member for many years. She is active in training and breeding Leonbergers and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Leonberger Health Foundation. Dr. Joel and her spouse travel extensively and are supporters of several other environmental organizations in addition to WWF.
S. Curtis Johnson  serves as Chairman of JohnsonDiversey, Inc. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as Chairman of Commercial Markets, Inc. since 1996 and as Chairman of Commercial Markets Holdco since December 1999. He joined S.C. Johnson & Son (SCJ) in August 1983 and served as a general partner of Wind Point Partners, L.C., a significant Chicago-based private equity partnership he co-founded. He served as Vice President-Global Business Development of SCJ from October 1994 to February 1996. While at SCJ, Mr. Johnson also served in several other offices, including Vice President and Managing Director of Mexico Johnson, an SCJ subsidiary, and Director-Worldwide Business Development. Mr. Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Cornell University in 1977 and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing/Finance from Northwestern University in 1983. He also serves as a Director of Cargill, Inc. and the World Wildlife Fund.

Shelly Lazarus  of New York, New York, is chairman and chief executive officer of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, one of the world's largest advertising agency marketing communications networks. Ms. Lazarus has been with O&M since 1971, working on a broad range of accounts before moving into management in the late 1980s. She serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School, American Museum of Natural History, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and as a special representative to the board of Smith College. In addition, she serves on the boards of General Electric and Merck & Co. She has received a number of awards, including being listed in Fortune magazine's annual ranking of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business since its inception in 1998 and Forbes' list of The 100 Most Powerful Women, also since its inception in 2004. She was the first woman to be given Columbia Business School's Distinguished Leader in Business Award. Ms. Lazarus is a graduate of Smith College and received an MBA from Columbia University.

Lawrence H. Linden  of New York, New York, is an Advisory Director with Goldman Sachs and Company. He has been, over time, head of information technology; head of securities, commodities, and treasury operations; and chairman of the global control and compliance committee. Mr. Linden joined and was elected a general partner of Goldman Sachs in 1992. 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 senior White House staff member working on issues relating to energy, transportation, and the environment. He is chairman of the board of trustees of Resources for the Future, and a member of several advisory committees at MIT, where he has established the Linden Earth Systems fellowships. He serves as senior advisor to the Redstone Strategy Group, a management-consulting firm that advises on large-scale conservation programs, and has lectured widely on this topic. From December 2001 through February 2002, he was chief of technology for the 9/11 United Services Group, where he helped start a charity in New York City to coordinate private sector donations for the victims of the September 11th attacks. In 2006 he established the Linden Trust for Conservation, which provides financial advice and support to institutions creating markets for environmental services. Mr. Linden received a BSE from Princeton University and an SM and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert Litterman of New York, New York, is Chairman of the Quantitative Investment Strategies group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Bob is the co-developer, along with the late Fischer Black, of the Black-Litterman Global Asset Allocation Model, a key tool in the Investment Management Division’s asset allocation process. Prior to moving to the Investment Management Division, Bob was head of the firm wide Risk Department. Preceding his time in the Operations, Technology & Finance Division, he spent eight years in the Fixed Income Division’s research department, where he was co-director.
Before joining the firm in 1986, Bob was an assistant vice president in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bob is a member of the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He earned a BS in Human Biology from Stanford University in 1973 and a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1980. Bob and his wife, Mary, live in Short Hills, New Jersey.

Thomas Lovejoy  of McLean, Virginia, is President of The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary for External & Environmental Affairs and then Counselor for Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs at the Smithsonian Institution and served at The World Bank on a reimbursed detail as the Bank's Lead Specialist for the Environment for Latin America and the Caribbean. He was also Chief Biodiversity Advisor to the President of the World Bank. A tropical and conservation biologist, Dr. Lovejoy was vice president for science at WWF from 1973 to 1985, and served as WWF's Executive Vice President from 1985 to 1987. He conceived the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystems project, a joint research effort of WWF and Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA) that is now managed by the Smithsonian Institution and INPA. He also originated the concept of debt for nature swaps and founded the public television series Nature. Dr. Lovejoy serves on numerous scientific and conservation boards, including the New York Botanical Garden, Woods Hole Research Center, Institute for Ecosystem Studies, American Museum of Natural History and chairs the Conservation Trust Advisory Board for the National Geographic Society. He is past president of the Society for Conservation Biology and the American Institute of Biological Sciences and Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. In 1993 he was detailed as Science Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, where he helped initiate the National Biological Survey. He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University.

Dr. Pamela Matson  of Stanford, California, is dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. A systems ecologist and elected member of the National Academy of Science, her research focuses on biogeochemical cycling and human-environment interactions in tropical forest and agricultural regions. A member of the Stanford faculty since 1997, she is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences (GES), the McMurtry Fellow for Undergraduate Education, and the Chester Naramore Dean of Earth Sciences. Dr. Matson is a MacArthur Fellow, and currently is the chair of the National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. She received a BA from the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, an MS from Indiana University, and a PhD from Oregon State University.

Leigh H. 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 $330 million in 2007. 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. He is currently serving on the boards of the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy of Montana (and formerly served 9 years on TNC’s Worldwide Board holding Vice Chair position), and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Perk graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1975 and has completed Harvard University's Executive Management Program.

Carter Roberts  is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Washington, DC-based World Wildlife Fund, one of the world's premier international conservation groups. Roberts joined WWF as Chief Conservation Officer in 2004 and was named to his current position the following year. WWF conserves the world's greatest ecosystems while working with government and business to influence market forces throughout the world. The organization's international Network is comprised of 30 independent WWF affiliates at work in more than 100 countries and supported by close to 5 million members globally, 1.2 million of whom are in the United States.

Before coming to WWF, Roberts established new programs in Latin America for The Nature Conservancy, led strategic planning efforts that charted the organization's aggressive growth strategy of the past decade, and led their Massachusetts Chapter as State Director. Roberts also held marketing and management positions at a number of multinational companies -- including Proctor and Gamble, Dun and Bradstreet and Gillette -- where he led teams in designing products and bringing them to market around the world.

Roberts sits on the boards of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College of London and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. He received an M.B.A. from Harvard University and is a graduate of Princeton University.

Virginia Sall  of Cary, North Carolina is a former chairman of La Leche League International and represents LLLI at the United Nations. She currently serves on the board of directors for CARE USA. Mrs. Sall is a cofounder of Cary Academy, an innovative college-preparatory school in Cary, North Carolina and currently serves as a trustee. She is also a cofounder and director of the Sall Family Foundation. Mrs. Sall received a bachelor's degree in physics from Rice University and studied biostatistics at University of North Carolina School of Public Health.

Cristián Samper  (sahm-PAIR), a biologist and international authority on environmental policy, is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. As director of the National Museum of Natural History, Samper is responsible for the largest natural history collection in the world and a museum that welcomes more than six million visitors each year. Since his arrival in 2003, Samper reinvigorated the research staff by hiring new curators to replace retiring staff; built major new collections storage facilities and laboratories in Suitland, Maryland; and raised more than $100 million to support new long-term exhibitions and programs, including the Encyclopedia of Life and the Sant Ocean Hall.

Samper served as Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian from March 2007 through June 2008. As Acting Secretary, he guided the Institution through a transition period, working with the Board of Regents on comprehensive governance review and reform, as well as enhanced communications with key stakeholders. He worked with Congress to address the funding need for facilities; initiated the planning for the Institution’s first national fundraising campaign; restructured and refocused Smithsonian Enterprises (formerly Smithsonian Business Ventures); and oversaw the work of a new leadership team.

Prior to coming to Washington, D.C., Samper, 42, was deputy director and staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, the largest research facility for tropical biology, with emphasis on tropical forests and coral reefs, from 2001 to 2003.

From 1999 to 2001, he was chairman of the Subsidiary Body of Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. In this role, Samper helped develop a global strategy for plant conservation and launched the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, designed to determine the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and provide the scientific basis for action to conserve and use ecosystems sustainably.

From 1995 to 2001, Samper was the founder and first director of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute, the national biodiversity research institute of Colombia. He was responsible for developing the National Biodiversity Policy for Colombia, promoting research on biological inventories, conservation biology and sustainable use of biodiversity. At the same time, he served as chief science adviser for biodiversity for the Colombian government and served on the boards of many environmental institutions. For his contributions, he was awarded the National Medal of the Environment by the president of Colombia in 2001.

Samper served as director of the environment division of the Foundation for Higher Education in Colombia from 1992 to 1995, and he also was adjunct professor of biology at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. He was a moving force behind the establishment of a network of private nature reserves and major environmental education programs throughout Colombia.

Known for his work in the ecology of the Andean cloud forests, conservation biology and environmental policy, Samper currently sits on the Boards of Directors for the American Association of Museums, the Center for International Forest Research, and the Nature Conservancy.

Born Sept. 25, 1965, in San José, Costa Rica, Samper grew up in Colombia and holds dual citizenship from the United States and Colombia. Samper received a bachelor’s degree from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá (1987); he earned his master’s degree (1989) and doctorate degree (1992) in biology from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Derek Bok prize for excellence in teaching.

Roger W. Sant  of Washington, D.C. is Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of The AES Corporation, a global power company operating in 27 countries. Prior to starting AES in 1981, he 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 Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and Chairs the Boards of Trustees of The Summit Foundation, The Summit Fund of Washington and the National Museum of Natural History. He is Vice Chairman of the National Symphony Orchestra Board and Treasurer of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S. (which he chaired from 1994 to 2000). He chaired the WWF National Council from September 2001 to September 2002. He was also 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.

Thomas W. Tusher  of Crystal Bay, Nevada, owns Blanket Bay Lodge in Glenorchy, New Zealand and the Amisfield Wine Company, also in New Zealand. He retired in 1997 as president and chief operating officer of Levi Strauss & Company. He joined the company in 1969 and held senior management positions in Australia, Europe, and the United States. He was president of Levi Strauss International from 1976 until his appointment as chief operating officer in 1984. Mr. Tusher was with Colgate Palmolive from 1965 to 1969. He is currently a director of AMB Property Corporation, and a member of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame Committee. He is also chairman emeritus of the Haas School of Business advisory board. He is a former director of the Great Western Financial Corporation, Cakebread Cellars, Pearl Izumi, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Tusher received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.