WRI Board of Directors

James A. Harmon (Chairman of the Board)
Chairman, Caravel Management LLC; former President of the Export-Import Bank, United States

Harriet (Hattie) Babbitt (Vice Chair)
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, United States

James Gustave Speth (Founder and Trustee Emeritus)
Former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme, United States

William D. Ruckelshaus (Chairman Emeritus)
Strategic Director, Madrona Venture Group; former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United States

Alice (Tish) F. Emerson (Vice-Chair Emeritus)
President Emerita, Wheaton College, United States

Roberto Artavia
President of VIVA Trust, Costa Rica

Frances Beinecke
President, Natural Resources Defense Council, United States

Afsaneh Beschloss
President and CEO, The Rock Creek Group, United States

Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Former President of Brazil; currently Professor-at-Large at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University, United States

Robin Chase
Founder & CEO, Buzzcar; co-founder & former CEO, Zipcar; founder and CEO, GoLoco, United States

Chen Jining
Professor and President, Tsinghua University (Beijing), China

Tiffany Clay
Vice President, TPG Biotechnology, United States

Daniel Cruise
Corporate Officer and Vice President, Global Public and Government Affairs, Alcoa, United States

Dino Patti Djalal
Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the United States

Daniel L Doctoroff
President of Bloomberg, LP, United States

Jamshyd N. Godrej
Chairman and Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd., India

Al Gore
Chairman of Generation Investment Management, London; and former Vice President of the United States

Jonathan Lash
President, Hampshire College, United States

Jaime Lerner
President, Instituto Jaime Lerner, former Governor of Parana and former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil

Kathleen McGinty
Managing Director, Strategic Growth, Weston Solutions, Inc., United States

Preston R. Miller, Jr.
Partner, The Tremont Group, LLC, United States

Göran Persson
Chairman, Sveaskog; Former Prime Minister of Sweden

Michael Polsky
President and Chief Executive Officer, Invenergy, United States

Bill Richardson
Former Governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former Energy Secretary, United States

Stephen M. Ross
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Related Companies LP, United States

Alison Sander
Globalization Topic Advisor, Boston Consulting Group, United States

Andrew Steer
President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute

Lee M. Thomas
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rayonier, United States

Susan Tierney
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., United States

D. James Umpleby
Group President, Caterpillar Inc., United States

Clinton A. Vince
Partner, SNR Denton, Chair of Energy, Transport and Infrastructure sector, United States

Diana H. Wall
Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Professor of Biology and Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, United States

Daniel Weiss
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Angeleno Group, United States