Board of Trustees
Trustees
CHAIR
Kathleen A. Welch
Founder & Principal, Corridor Partners
CHAIR EMERITUS
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School;
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine and Moore, LLP
TREASURER
Mary P. Moran
Environmentalist; foundation director
Katherine Adams
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Apple Inc.
President & Board Member, Beaverkill Valley Land Trust
Geeta Aiyer
President & Founder, Boston Common Asset Management, LLC
Richard E. Ayres
Environmentalist
Atif Azher
Corporate Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, Palo Alto, California Office
Patricia Bauman
President, Bauman Foundation;
Chair, NRDC Action Fund;
Co-Chair of the Brennan Center for Justice
Claire Bernard
President, Mariposa Foundation
Sarah E. Cogan
Of Counsel, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York Office
Laurie David
Producer, Author, Advocate;
Co-Founder, NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council
Leonardo DiCaprio
Founder and Co-Chairman of Earth Alliance
John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Catherine C. Flowers
Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Lisa Hall
Impact Chair, Apollo Global Management
Nicole E. Lederer
Chair and Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Actress, Producer, Activist
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;
Founding Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health;
Director, Program in Translational Research
Diana Propper de Callejon
Managing Director, Cranemere Inc.
Robert Redford
Actor; director; conservationist
Elena Rios, M.D.
President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist
Tom Roush, M.D.
Private investor; environmental activist
Tom Soto
Founder and Managing Partner, Diverse Communities Impact Fund
Gerald Torres
Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment, Yale Law School
Margret Trilli
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Impact Assets
David C. Vladeck
A.B. Chettle, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
David F. Welch, Ph.D.
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Infinera Corporation
Daniel Yates
Executive Chairman, Dandelion Geothermal
Honorary Trustees
CHAIR EMERITUS
Alan F. Horn
Chief Creative Officer, The Walt Disney Studios
CHAIR EMERITUS
Daniel R. Tishman
Vice Chairman and Principal of Tishman Realty
John H. Adams
Founding Director, NRDC;
Chair, Open Space Institute
Frances Beinecke
President Emerita, NRDC
Anita Bekenstein
Environmentalist; foundation director
Anna Scott Carter
Environmentalist; Co-Founder, 'Clean by Design' initiative
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
Senior Counsel, Covington and Burling, LLP
Shelly B. Malkin
Artist; conservationist
Josephine A. Merck
Artist; Founder, Ocean View Foundation
Jonathan F.P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC
Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; foundation director
William H. Schlesinger
President Emeritus, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
James Gustave Speth
Professor of Law, Vermont Law School;
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
James Taylor
Singer/Songwriter
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
NRDC Distinguished Scientist;
Founder, Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center