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About NRDC: Board of Trustees
Daniel R. Tishman; ChairChair and CEO, Tishman Construction Corp. of New York
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.; Chair Emeritus
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
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
Henry R. Breck
Partner, Heronetta Holdings
Anna Scott Carter
Consultant, NRDC; Environmentalist
Susan Crown
Principal, Henry Crown and Company; Executive, Foundation Chair, 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.
Jill Tate Higgins
Private investor; General Partner, Lakeside Enterprises, L.P.
Bob Kerrey
President, The New School
Philip B. Korsant
Managing Member, Korsant Partners
Ruben Kraiem
Partner, Covington and Burling
Nicole Lederer
Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Maya Lin
Artist; Designer
Shelly B. Malkin
Landscape painter; Conservationist
Josephine A. Merck
Artist; Founder, Ocean View Foundation
Peter A. Morton
Chair, 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 Companies
Thomas W. Roush, M.D.
Physician
Philip (Pete) Ruegger III
Chair, Executive Committee, Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett
Christine H. Russell, Ph.D.
Environmentalist; Foundation director
Wendy Schmidt
President, The Schmidt Family Foundation; Founder, The 11th Hour Project
James Gustave Speth
Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
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)
Joan K. Davidson
Former Parks Commissioner, NY State; President Emeritus, The J.M. Kaplan Fund
Adrian W. DeWind; Chair Emeritus
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (retired)
Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
Chair, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc.
James B. Frankel
Attorney; Conservationist
Francis W. Hatch
Trustee, John Merck Fund
Hamilton F. Kean
Attorney; Conservationist
Charles E. Koob
Partner, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett
Burks B. Lapham
Chair, Concern, Inc.
Jonathan Z. Larsen
Journalist
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
Partner, Caplin & Drysdale
Kirby Walker
Independent film/video producer
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