Board of Trustees | NRDC

Trustees


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

Honorary Trustees


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

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