About NRDC: Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

CHAIR
Daniel R. Tishman
Chairman & CEO, Tishman Construction Corporation; Vice Chairman, Tishman Hotel & Realty LP; Vice Chairman, AECOM Technology Corporation

CHAIR EMERITUS
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice; Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP

VICE CHAIR
Patricia Bauman
President, Bauman Foundation; Co-Chair of the Brennan Center for Justice

VICE CHAIR
Robert J. Fisher
Director, Gap Inc.

VICE CHAIR
Alan F. Horn
Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios

VICE CHAIR
Wendy K. Neu
CEO, Hugo Neu Corporation; grassroots community organizer and activist

TREASURER
Joy Covey
President, Beagle Foundation

John H. Adams
Founding Director, NRDC; Chair, Open Space Institute

Adam Albright
Private investor; environmentalist

Richard E. Ayres
The Ayres Law Group

Anna Scott Carter
Environmentalist

Laurie David
Producer; advocate; author; Co-Founder, NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council

Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor; environmentalist; Founder, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund

Michel Gelobter, Ph.D.
Board Chair, Cooler Inc.; Co-Founder, BuildingEnergy.com

Kate Greswold
Environmentalist; foundation director

Arjun Gupta
Founder and Chief Believer, TeleSoft Partners

Van Jones
Co-Founder and President, Rebuild the Dream

Philip B. Korsant
Member, Long Light Capital, LLC

Nicole E. Lederer
Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)

Michael Lynton
CEO, Sony Corporation of America; Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Shelly B. Malkin
Artist; conservationist

Josephine A. Merck
Artist; Founder, Ocean View Foundation

Kelly Chapman Meyer
Co-Founder, American Heart Association Teaching Gardens

Mary Moran
Environmentalist; foundation director

Peter A. Morton
Chairman/Founder, 510 Development Corp.

Frederica P. Perera, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health; Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Robert Redford
Actor; director; conservationist

Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist

Jonathan F. P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC

Tom Roush, M.D.
Private investor; environmental activist

Philip T. (Pete) Ruegger
Chairman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

William H. Schlesinger
President, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Wendy Schmidt
President, 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 & Co., L.P.

James Taylor
Singer/Songwriter

Gerald Torres
Bryant Smith Chair, University of Texas Law School

David F. Welch, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Infinera Corporation

Eric Wepsic
Managing Director, D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.

George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
Founder, Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center; NRDC distinguished scientist

 

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Dean 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, L.P.

Joan K. Davidson
President, Furthermore Grants in Publishing; Former NY State Parks Commissioner; President Emerita, J.M. Kaplan Fund

Sylvia A. 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, LLP

Burks B. Lapham
Environmentalist

Maya Lin
Artist/Designer

Michael A. McIntosh, Sr.
President, The McIntosh Foundation

Daniel Pauly, Ph.D.
Professor of Fisheries and Zoology

Nathaniel P. Reed
Businessman; conservationist

Cruz Reynoso
Professor of Law, UC Davis

John R. Robinson
Attorney

Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; foundation director

John Sheehan
United Steelworkers of America (retired)

David Sive
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

Elizabeth Wiatt
Environmentalist; Co-Founder, NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council