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Chairman Emeritus Sir Crispin Tickell
Kent, United Kingdom
Chancellor, Kent University
Former United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Former British Ambassador to Mexico and Permanent Secretary of the Overseas Development Administration

Chairman William A. Nitze
President, Gemstar Group
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1987-1989
US EPA Assistant Administrator for International Activities 1993-2001

Mark Goldberg, Vice Chairman
Washington, DC
Senior Vice President for Policy and Strategy, National Coalition on Health Care
Former faculty member, Yale School of Management and former White House staff member

Luis Roberto Acosta
Director, Mexico and Latin America Regional Affairs, Climate Institute

Dr. Stephen Leatherman aka Dr. Beach
Miami, Florida
Director, International Hurricane Research Center and Laboratory for Coastal Research, Florida International University

John P. Bond, General Counsel
Fairfax, Virginia
Attorney
Formerly Executive Director, Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE)

Dr. Noel Brown
New Canaan, Connecticut
President, Friends of the United Nations
Former Regional Director for North America, United Nations Environment Programme

Joseph A. Cannon
Provo, Utah
Partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman
Former Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation of the U.S. EPA

Claudine Cmarada
Boulder, Colorado
Former Executive Director of the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies
Former five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives

Dr. Devra Davis
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Author, When Smoke Ran Like Water

Lynne Todd Edgerton
Attorney
Nashville, Tennesee
Former Member, California Air Resources Board

Jason Elliott (see p. 7, Climate Alert Spring 2001)
Woody Creek, Colorado
Managing Director, Ranger Capital Fund

Christopher Flavin
Washington, DC
President, Worldwatch Institute

Dr. Thomas Gale
Centreville, Maryland
Trustee, Thomas H. and Barbara W. Gale Foundation
Proprietor, Eversley Farm in Centreville, Maryland

Dr. Lee W. Huebner
Evanston, Illinois
Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University
Former President, American University of Paris
Former Publisher, International Herald Tribune and Oil Daily

Dr. Michael MacCracken
Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute
President, International Association on Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Michael McElroy
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Chair, Interfaculty Initiative on the Environment, Harvard University
Founding Chair, Department of Planetary and Earth Science, Harvard
University
Chairman of the Board, International Research Institute for Climate
Prediction, a Columbia University and NOAA joint undertaking

John Noel III
Nashville, Tennessee
President, John Noel Investment Company
President, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Daniel Power
Washington, DC
Civil Engineer and City Planner
Secretary- Treasurer and Director of Outreach, Climate Institute

Hon. Tom Roper
New York, New York
Director, Global Sustainable Energy Islands Initiative
Retired Member of Parliament from the State of Victoria, Australia
Former Australian Minister for Planning and Environment
Former State Treasurer, State of Victoria, Australia

Dr. Stephen H. Schneider
Stanford, California
Professor of Biology, Stanford University

John C. Topping, Jr.
Washington, DC
President and Chief Executive Officer, Climate Institute
Former Staff Director, Office of Air and Radiation, US EPA

James Lee Witt
Washington, DC
President, James Lee Witt Associates
CEO, International Code Council
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA) 1993-2001

Honorary Board Members*

Paul C. Pritchard, Founding Chairman
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
President of the National Park Trust
Former President, National Parks and Conservation Association

Dr. H. Nuzhet Dalfes
Istanbul, Turkey
Professor of Climate and Marine Sciences and Dean, Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University

Luis Manuel Guerra
Mexico City, Mexico
President, Instituto Autonomo de Investigaciones Ecologicas, A.C.

Dr. Shuzo Nishioka
Tsukuba, Japan
Director, Center for Global Environmental Research, Japan Environment Agency

Dr. Hind Sadek
Washington, District of Columbia
President, Environment and Our Common Past (Ecopast)

Dr. Pier Vellinga
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Director, Institute for Environmental Studies, Free University of Amsterdam

*non-voting, but contribute to planning of international activities of the Climate Institute

Activities and Awards of Climate Institute Board Members