About NRDC: Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
Daniel R. Tishman; ChairVice Chairman, AECOM Technology Corporation; Chairman and CEO of Tishman Construction Corp. of New York
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.; Chair Emeritus
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
Adam Albright; Vice Chair
Private investor; Environmentalist
Patricia Bauman; Vice Chair
Co-director, Bauman Foundation
Robert J. Fisher; Vice Chair
Director, GAP Inc.
Alan Horn; Vice Chair
President and COO, Warner Brothers
Joy Covey; Treasurer
President, Beagle Foundation
John H. Adams; Founding Director
Chair, Open Space Institute
Richard E. Ayres, Esq.
The Ayres Law Group
Anna Scott Carter
Consultant, NRDC; Environmentalist
Susan Crown
Principal, Henry Crown and Company; Executive, Foundation Chairman, Community Activist
Laurie P. David
Producer; Activist
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor; Environmentalist
John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Bob Epstein
Co-Founder, Sybase, Inc., and Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2); Organizer and Director, New Resource Bank
Michel Gelobter, Ph.D.
Founder, CEO, Cooler Inc.
Arjun Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner, Telesoft Partners
Van Jones
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; Founder and Advisor, Green for All
Philip B. Korsant
Managing Member, Korsant Partners, LLC
Nicole Lederer
Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Michael Lynton
Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Shelly B. Malkin
Landscape painter; Conservationist
Josephine A. Merck
Artist; Founder, Ocean View Foundation
Mary Moran
NRDC Global Council Member
Peter A. Morton
Chairman/Founder, 510 Development Corp.
Wendy Neu
Senior Vice President, Hugo Neu Corp; Grassroots community organizer and activist
Frederica Perera, Ph.D.
Professor, Columbia University; Director, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health
Robert Redford
Actor; Director; Conservationist
Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist
Jonathan F.P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Cos., LLC
Thomas W. Roush, M.D.
Private investor; Environmental activist
Philip (Pete) Ruegger III
Chairman, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett LLP; Chairman of the Board of Henry Street Settlement House
Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; Foundation director
William H. Schlesinger
President, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Wendy Schmidt
President, The Schmidt Family Foundation; Founder, The 11th Hour Project
James Gustave Speth
Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
Max Stone
Managing Director, D.E. Shaw & Company, L.P.
James Taylor
Singer/Songwriter
Gerald Torres
Bryant Smith Chair, University of Texas Law School
Elizabeth Wiatt
Environmentalist; Founder, Leadership Council
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
Founder, Woods Hole Research Center
Dean E. Abrahamson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Robert O. Blake
U.S. Ambassador (retired)
Henry R. Breck
Partner, Heronetta Management, LP
Joan K. Davidson
Former Parks Commissioner, NY State; President Emeritus, The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
Chair, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc.
James B. Frankel
Attorney; Conservationist
Hamilton F. Kean
Attorney; Conservationist
Charles E. Koob
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP
Ruben Kraiem
Partner, Covington and Burling
Burks B. Lapham
Chair, Concern, Inc.
Maya Lin
Artist; Designer
Michael A. McIntosh, Sr.
President, The McIntosh Foundation
Daniel Pauly
Director, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Nathaniel P. Reed
Businessman; Conservationist
Cruz Reynoso
Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
John R. Robinson
Attorney
John Sheehan
United Steelworkers of America (retired)
David Sive
Partner, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C. (retired)
Frederick A. Terry, Jr.
Senior Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell
Thomas A. Troyer
Member, Caplin & Drysdale
Kirby Walker
Independent film/video producer
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