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 Ventures
• Joshua Bekenstein
  Managing Director, Bain Capital
• Georges C. Benjamin, MD
  Executive Director, American Public Health Association
• Michael D. Bills
  Founder and CIO, Bluestem Asset Management
• Shelby W. Bonnie
  Co-founder, CNET Networks
• Christopher A. Cole
  Chairman, Ardea Partners, LLC
• Christopher Costello
  Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Bren School UCSB
  Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Rachel Crane
  Former Space, Science and Innovations Correspondent, CNN
• Leslie Dach
  Strategic Consultant
• Ruth DeFries, Ph.D.
  Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
• Susan Ford Dorsey
  President, Sand Hill Foundation
• Stanley Druckenmiller
  Investor
• Nikki Eslami
  Founder and CEO, New Theory Ventures
  Founder and CEO, Wild Elements
• Kirsten J. Feldman
  Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
  Chair, Steep Rock Association
• Carl Ferenbach
  Chairman, High Meadows Foundation
• Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.
  Pediatrician
  Dean, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
• Charles J. Hamilton, Jr.
  Senior Counsel, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP
• Alice Hill
  David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
• Coddy Johnson
  Partner, Goodwater Capital
• Kevin Johnson
  Entrepreneur
  Co-Founder/ Partner, Caelum Ventures
  Board Director, American Resilience Project
• The 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
• Andrea Monge
  CEO, ISPD
• 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
• 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.