As Vice President for Institutional Strategy & Development at the World Resources Institute, Elizabeth Cook's role is to work with WRI's board and staff to scale up the organization's priority initiatives. This includes expanding key external partnerships necessary for WRI's programmatic success. A staff member since 1994, Cook has held several leadership positions within the institute. Most recently, she directed WRI's Sustainable Enterprise Program, which harnesses the power of business to create profitable solutions to environment and development challenges. Prior to that, she led WRI's interdisciplinary Climate Protection Initiative, which worked in partnership with companies to identify policies and business strategies for achieving strong climate goals. Cook has twenty years of experience working with industry on innovative responses to environmental issues. She serves on Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business Advisory Committee, and the Nike and GE Corporate Responsibility Report Review Committees. She regularly works with executive leadership at numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Wal Mart, Exxon Mobil, BP, Johnson & Johnson, Alcoa and Shell on strengthening corporate commitments to the environment. In September 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded Cook its "Best of the Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award" in recognition of the most exceptional global contributions in the first two decades of the Montreal Protocol.