WRI Board of Directors
James A. Harmon (Chairman of the Board)
Chairman, Harmon & Co., 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
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
Former President and Rector, INCAE Business School, Costa Rica
Gay Barclay
Founder and Board Member, PAVA Foundation, United States
Frances Beinecke
President, Natural Resources Defense Council, United States
Afsaneh Beschloss
President and CEO, The Rock Creek Group, United States
Antony Burgmans
Former Chairman, Unilever N.V. and PLC, Netherlands
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
Jessica Catto
President, Crockett Street Management, LLC; President, Elk Mountain Builders, Inc., United States
Leslie Dach
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Government Relations, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 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, United States
Denis Hayes
President, Bullitt Foundation, United States
Aditi Kapoor
Fellow, Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD); Independent journalist and Media/Development Consultant, India
Jonathan Lash
President, World Resources Institute, United States
Preston R. Miller, Jr.
Partner, The Tremont Group, LLC, United States
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Former Minister of Finance, Government of Nigeria; currently Managing Director at the World Bank, Nigeria
James W. Owens
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Caterpillar, Inc., United States
Michael Polsky
President and Chief Executive Officer, Invenergy, United States
C.K. Prahalad
Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration, The University of Michigan Business School, United States
Qian Yi
Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University (Beijing), China
Theodore Roosevelt IV
Managing Director, Lehman Brothers, United States
Stephen M. Ross
Chairman and CEO, Related Companies LP, United States
Alison Sander
Globalization Topic Advisor, Boston Consulting Group, United States
José Sarukhan
Professor, Institute of Ecology, National University of Mexico (UNAM) and National Coordinator, Mexican Commission on Biodiversity (CONABIO), Mexico
James Gustave Speth
Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme, United States
Ralph Taylor
Founding Chair of Global Action Network Net, United States
Lee M. Thomas
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rayonier, United States
Todd S. Thomson
Founder & CEO, Headwaters Capital LLC, United States
Diana H. Wall
Professor & Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, United States