BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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

Chairman Emeritus, Sir Crispin Tickell
Ablington, United Kingdom
Director, Director of the Policy Foresight Programme of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford 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
Washington, DC
Chairman, Galapagos Conservancy
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1987-1989
US EPA Assistant Administrator for International Activities 1994-2001

Vice Chairman, Mark Goldberg
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
Mexico City, Mexico
Director, Mexico and Latin America Regional Affairs, Climate Institute
Winner, Miguel Aleman Prize, 2000

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 Program

Joseph A. Cannon
Provo, Utah
Editor, Deseret News Former Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation of the U.S. EPA

Thomas R. Casten
Chairman, Recycled Energy Development
Founder, Trigen Energy Corporation
Founder, Primary Energy Ventures LLC

Dr. Devra Davis
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Author, When Smoke Ran Like Water
Author, The Secret History of the War on Cancer

Lynne Todd Edgerton
Nashville, Tennessee
Attorney
Former Member, California Air Resources Board
Author, The Rising Tide

Jason Elliott
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

Barbara Hernández
Mexico City, Mexico
President, Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernández
Board Member, RARE

Dr. Lee W. Huebner
Washington, DC
Director, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Former President, American University of Paris
Former Publisher, International Herald Tribune and Oil Daily

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

Dr. Michael MacCracken
Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs, Climate Institute
President, International Association on Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (2003-2007)
Senior Editor, Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them

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
Nashville, Tennessee
President, Oceana Energy Company
Secretary- Treasurer, 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

Claudine Schneider
Boulder, Colorado
President, Solar Alliance Former five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives

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

Margie Simon de Ortiz
Mexico City, Mexico
Director General, CICEANA

James Lee Witt
Washington, DC
President, James Lee Witt Associates
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
Environmental Leader and Journalist

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

Dr. Hind Sadek
Washington, DC
President, Environment and Our Common Past (Ecopast)
Former Director, Museum of Natural History of Iran

Dr. Pier Vellinga
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chairman, Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment
Professor in Environmental Science, Free University of Amsterdam

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