BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chairman, 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
John C. Topping, Jr.
Hanover, NH
President and Chief Executive Officer, Climate Institute
Former Staff Director, Office of Air and Radiation, US EPA
Luis Roberto Acosta
Mexico City, Mexico
Executive Vice President, Climate Institute
Director, Mexico and Latin America Regional Affairs, Climate Institute
Winner, Miguel Aleman Prize, 2000
Dr. Noel Brown
New York, NY
President, Friends of the United Nations
Former Regional Director for North America, United Nations Environment Programme
Joseph A. Cannon
Provo, Utah
Founding CEO, Fuels Freedom Foundation
Thomas R. Casten
Westmont, Illinois
Chairman, Recycled Energy Development
Founder, Trigen Energy Corporation
Founder, Primary Energy Ventures LLC
Robert Corell
Grasonville, Maryland
Chair, Climate Action Initiative
Principal, Global Environment and Technology Foundation
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
Carlos Diaz Leal.
Mexico City, Mexico
International Liaison, Climate Institute
President, Yu –Bal -Cah Educational Park
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
Bert Kerstetter
Princeton, New Jersey
Chairman, Everfast, Inc.
Nasir Khattak
Falls Church, Virginia
Chief Operating Officer, Climate Institute
Coordinator, Vision 20/30 http://gseii.org/
Dr. Stephen Leatherman aka Dr. Beach
Miami, Florida
Director, International Hurricane Research Center and Laboratory for Coastal Research, Florida International University
Dr. Michael MacCracken
Bethesda, Maryland
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 (2007)
John Noel III
Nashville, Tennessee
President, John Noel Investment Company
President, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
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
Margie Simon de Ortiz
Mexico City, Mexico
Director General, CICEANA
Oriana Tickell de Castello
Mexico City, Mexico
Founding Partner, CORPX Coach SC
Dr. Daniel Wildcat
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Director, Environmental Research Studies Center, Haskell Indian Nations University Convenor, American Indian Alaskan Native Climate Change Working Group
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
William A. Nitze
Chairman, Nov 2002 - Feb 2009
Washington, DC
Chairman, Oceana Energy Company
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 1987-1989
US EPA Assistant Administrator for International Activities 1994-2001
John P. Bond
Fairfax, Virginia
Attorney
Formerly Executive Director, Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE)
Dr. H. Nuzhet Dalfes
Istanbul, Turkey
Professor of Climate and Marine Sciences and Dean, Informatics Institute,
Istanbul Technical University
Lynne Todd Edgerton
Nashville, Tennessee
Attorney
Former Member, California Air Resources Board
Author, The Rising Tide
Christopher Flavin
Washington, DC
President, Emeritus, Worldwatch Institute
Luis Manuel Guerra
Mexico City, Mexico
Environmental Leader and Journalist
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. 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
Dr. Shuzo Nishioka
Tsukuba, Japan
Former Director, Center for Global Environmental Research,
Japan Environment Agency
Daniel Power
Pace, Florida
President, Oceana Energy Company
Dr. Hind Sadek
Washington, DC
President, Environment and Our Common Past (Ecopast)
Former Director, Museum of Natural History of Iran
Claudine Schneider
Boulder, Colorado
Former five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Dr. Pier Vellinga
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chairman, Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment
Professor in Environmental Science, Free University of Amsterdam
James Lee Witt
Washington, DC
President, James Lee Witt Associates
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency, (FEMA) 1993-2001
*non-voting, but contribute to planning of Climate Institute activities