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 VenturesJoshua Bekenstein
Managing Director, Bain CapitalGeorges C. Benjamin, MD
Executive Director, American Public Health AssociationMichael D. Bills
Founder and CIO, Bluestem Asset ManagementShelby W. Bonnie
Co-founder, CNET NetworksChristopher A. Cole
Chairman, Ardea Partners, LLCChristopher Costello
Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Bren School UCSB
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic ResearchRachel Crane
Former Space, Science and Innovations Correspondent, CNNLeslie Dach
Strategic ConsultantRuth DeFries, Ph.D.
Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia UniversitySusan Ford Dorsey
President, Sand Hill FoundationStanley Druckenmiller
InvestorNikki Eslami
Founder and CEO, New Theory Ventures
Founder and CEO, Wild ElementsKirsten J. Feldman
Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Chair, Steep Rock AssociationCarl Ferenbach
Chairman, High Meadows FoundationLynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.
Pediatrician
Dean, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health ServicesCharles J. Hamilton, Jr.
Senior Counsel, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLPAlice Hill
David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign RelationsCoddy Johnson
Partner, Goodwater CapitalThe 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 - Susan Wojcicki
SVP & Advisor, Google/Alphabet - 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.