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    • David Blood
      David Blood

      Chair, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Founding Partner and the Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

    • Susan Tierney

      Vice Chair, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Senior Advisor, Analysis Group, Inc

    • Pamela P. Flaherty

      Vice Chair, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Former President and CEO, Citi Foundation; Former Director of Corporate Citizenship, Citi

    • Clara Barby.
      Clara Barby

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Senior Partner, Just Climate

    • Frances Beinecke

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      President Emerita and Honorary Trustee, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

    • Afsaneh M. Beschloss
      Afsaneh M. Beschloss

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Founder and CEO, RockCreek

    • Stephen Brenninkmeijer

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Founder and Principal, Willows Investments

    • Jesper Brodin
      Jesper Brodin

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      President And CEO, Ingka Group

    • Sharan Burrow.
      Sharan Burrow

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Former General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

    • William Chen

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Founding Managing Partner, ClearVue Partners

    • Jamshyd N. Godrej

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; Chair, WRI India Board of Directors
      Chairman and Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd., India

    • Lawrence E. Jones
      Lawrence E. Jones

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Vice President, International Programs, Edison Electric Institute

    • Joaquim Levy

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Director of Economic Strategy and Market Relations, Banco Safra Brazil;
      Former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, World Bank

    • Carlos Lopes
      Carlos Lopes

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Professor, Nelson Mandela School, University of Cape Town; Chair of the African Climate Foundation Board; Former Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa

    • Cecilia Martinez.
      Cecilia Martinez

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; WRI Mexico Board of Directors
      Former Director of the UN-Habitat

    • Pamela Matson
      Pamela Matson

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Goldman Professor Emerita, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Dean Emerita, Stanford University School of Earth, Energy and Environment

    • Kathleen McLaughlin
      Kathleen McLaughlin

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      EVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc. & President, Walmart Foundation

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      Michael Miebach

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Chief Executive Officer, Mastercard

    • Nader Mousavizadeh

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Founding Partner and CEO, Macro Advisory Partners

    • Mari Elka Pangestu

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Professor of International Economic University of Indonesia

    • Michael Polsky
      Michael Polsky

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors

      Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Invenergy, United States

    • Roger Sant
      Roger W. Sant

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Chairman, The Summit Foundation; Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation

    • Jennifer Scully-Lerner

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Vice President of Private Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs

    • Johannes van de Ven.
      Johannes van de Ven

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; Chair, WRI Brasil Board of Directors
      Executive Director of Good Energies Foundation

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      Gloria Walton

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      President & CEO, The Solutions Project

    • Daniel Weiss

      Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
      Co-Founder and Managing Director, Angeleno Group

    • Ani Dasgupta
      Ani Dasgupta

      President & CEO

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    • James A. Harmon

      Chair Emeritus
      Chairman, Caravel Management LLC; former President of the Export-Import Bank, United States

    • Harriet C. Babbitt

      Vice Chair Emerita
      Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, United States

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      Vice Chair Emerita
      President Emerita, Wheaton College, United States

    • Jonathan Lash

      President Emeritus
      Former President, Hampshire College

    • James Gustave Speth

      Founder and Trustee Emeritus
      Former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme, United States

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      President and CEO Emeritus

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