About NRDC: Board of Trustees

Dan Tishman; Chair
Chair and CEO, Tishman Construction Corp. of New York

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.; Chair Emeritus
Senior Counsel, Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Adrian W. DeWind; Chair Emeritus
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

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

Henry R. Breck; Treasurer
Chair, Ark Asset Management Co., Inc.

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

Richard E. Ayres, Esq.
The Ayres Law Group

Anna Scott Carter
Consultant, NRDC; Environmentalist

Joy Covey
President, Beagle Foundation

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, Hard Rock Hotel, Inc.

Wendy Neu
Senior Vice President, Hugo Neu Corp; Grassroots community organizer and activist

Frederica Perera, Dr.P.H.
Professor, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University

Robert Redford
Actor; Director; Conservationist

Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist

Jonathan F.P. Rose
President, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, Affordable Housing Development Corporation

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, Director Emeritus and Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center


HONORARY TRUSTEES

Dean E. Abrahamson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Energy & Environmental Policy, 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

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

Franklin E. Parker
Advisor, The NJ Field Office of the Trust for Public Land (retired)

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)

Thomas B. Stoel
Stoel Rives (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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