BOARD CHAIR
Kathleen A. WelchFounder & 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
CHAIR EMERITUS
Daniel R. TishmanChairman, Tishman Construction
Vice Chair, AECOM
Principal, Tishman Realty
TREASURER
Mary P. MoranEnvironmentalist
Foundation director
John H. Adams
Founding Director, NRDC
Chair, Open Space Institute
Geeta Aiyer
President & Founder, Boston Common Asset Management
Hon. Anne Slaughter Andrew
Advisor, Sustainable Energy Investments
Richard E. Ayres
The Ayres Law Group
Atif Azher
Corporate Partner, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto 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
Author, Producer, Advocate
Co-Founder, NRDC Los Angeles Leadership Council
Leonardo DiCaprio
Founder and Chairman of LDF
John E. Echohawk
Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund
Catherine Flowers
Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice
Nicole E. Lederer
Chair and Co-Founder, Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Actress/Producer
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 HealthFounding Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental HealthDirector, Program in Translational Research
Diana Propper de Callejon
Managing Director, Cranemere, Inc.
Robert Redford
Actor
Director
Conservationist
Elena Rios, M.D.
President & CEO at National Hispanic Medical Association
Laurance Rockefeller
Conservationist
Tom Roush, M.D.
Private investor
Environmental activist
William H. Schlesinger
President Emeritus, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Gerald Torres
Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale Law School
David C. Vladeck
Professor, Georgetown Law
David F. Welch, Ph.D.
Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, Infinera Corporation
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.
NRDC Distinguished ScientistFounder, Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center
Dan Yates
Executive Chairman, Dandelion Geothermal
Frances Beinecke
President Emerita, NRDC
Anita Bekenstein
EnvironmentalistFoundation director
Anna Scott Carter
EnvironmentalistCo-Founder, 'Clean by Design' initiative
Sylvia A. Earle, Ph.D.
Chair, Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, Inc.
Robert J. Fisher
Director, Gap Inc.
Alan F. Horn
Co-Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, The Walt Disney Studios
Chair Emeritus, NRDC
Charles E. Koob
Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP
Philip B. Korsant
Member, Long Light Capital, LLC
Ruben Kraiem
Senior Partner, Covington and Burling, LLP
Shelly B. Malkin
ArtistConservationist
Josephine A. Merck
ArtistFounder, Ocean View Foundation
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
James Taylor
Singer/Songwriter