Board of Trustees
Trustees
CHAIR
Alan F. Horn
Chairman, The Walt Disney Studios
CHAIR EMERITUS
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School; Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP
CHAIR EMERITUS
Daniel R. Tishman
Principal & Vice Chairman, Tishman Realty Partners; Vice Chairman, AECOM
TREASURER
Mary P. Moran
Environmentalist; foundation director
John H. Adams
Founding Director, NRDC; Chair, Open Space Institute
Hon. Anne Slaughter Andrew
Advisor, Sustainable Energy Investments
Richard E. Ayres
The Ayres Law Group
Patricia Bauman
President, Bauman Foundation; Chair, NRDC Action Fund; Co-Chair of the Brennan Center for Justice
Anita Bekenstein
Environmentalist; foundation director
Claire Bernard
President, Mariposa Foundation
Anna Scott Carter
Environmentalist; Co-Founder, 'Clean by Design' initiative
Sarah E. Cogan
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York Office
Laurie David
Author, Producer, Advocate; Co-Founder, NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor; environmentalist; Founder, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Nicole E. Lederer
Chair and Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Shelly B. Malkin
Artist; conservationist
Josephine A. Merck
Artist; Founder, Ocean View Foundation
Kelly Chapman Meyer
Co-Founder, American Heart Association Teaching Gardens
Peter Morton
Chairman/Founder, 510 Development Corp.
Wendy K. Neu
Chairman and CEO, Hugo Neu Corporation; grassroots community organizer and activist
Frederica P. Perera, Dr.P.H., Ph.D.
Professor, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
Robert Redford
Actor; director; conservationist
Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist
Tom Roush, M.D.
Private investor; environmental activist
William H. Schlesinger
President Emeritus, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Max Stone
Managing Director, The D. E. Shaw Group
James Taylor
Singer/Songwriter
Gerald Torres
Jane M.G. Foster Professor, Cornell University Law School
David C. Vladeck
Professor, Georgetown Law
David F. Welch, Ph.D.
President, Infinera Corporation
Kathleen A. Welch
Principal, Corridor Partners
Eric Wepsic
Managing Director, The D. E. Shaw Group
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
Founder, Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center
Ali Zaidi
Senior Advisor, Morrison & Foerster; Precourt Energy Scholar, Stanford University; Non-resident Fellow, Columbia University
Honorary Trustees
Dean Abrahamson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
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.
Robert J. Fisher
Director, Gap Inc.
Charles E. Koob
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP
Philip B. Korsant
Member, Long Light Capital, LLC
Ruben Kraiem
Partner, Covington and Burling, LLP
Burks B. Lapham
Environmentalist
Maya Lin
Artist/Designer
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
Jonathan F. P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC
Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; foundation director
James Gustave Speth
Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
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
* Nathaniel Reed passed away July 2018