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    WRI Global Board

    Directors

    David Blood
    CHAIR
    Co-founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

    Pamela Flaherty
    VICE CHAIR
    Former President and CEO, Citi Foundation;
    former Director of Corporate Citizenship, Citi

    Susan Tierney
    VICE CHAIR
    Senior Advisor, Analysis Group, Inc.

    Frances Beinecke
    President Emerita and Honorary Trustee, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

    Afsaneh Beschloss
    Founder and CEO, RockCreek

    Stephen Brenninkmeijer
    Founder and Principal, Willows Investments

    Jesper Brodin
    President and CEO, Ingka Group

    William Chen
    Founding Managing Partner, ClearVue Partners

    Ani Dasgupta
    President and CEO, World Resources Institute

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

    Lawrence Jones
    Vice President, International Programs, Edison Electric Institute (EEI)

    Joaquim Levy
    Director of Economic Strategy and Market Relations, Banco Safra, Brazil;
    Former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, World Bank

    Carlos Lopes
    Professor, Nelson Mandela School, University of Cape Town; Chair of the African Climate Foundation Board; Former Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa

    Pamela Matson
    Goldman Professor Emerita, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Dean Emerita, Stanford University School of Earth, Energy and Environment

    Kathleen McLaughlin
    Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc.
    President, Walmart Foundation

    Michael Miebach
    Chief Executive Officer, Mastercard

    Nader Mousavizadeh
    Founding Partner and CEO, Macro Advisory Partners

    Mari Pangestu
    Professor of International Economic University of Indonesia

    Michael Polsky
    Founder and CEO, Invenergy

    Roger Sant
    Chairman, The Summit Foundation;
    Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation

    Jennifer Scully-Lerner
    Vice President of Private Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs

    Gloria Walton
    President & CEO, The Solutions Project

    Daniel Weiss
    Co-founder and Managing Partner, Angeleno Group

     

    WRI board members at a meeting in 2023
    From left to right: Andrew Steer, President and CEO Emeritus WRI; Jennifer Scully-Lerner, Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; James A. Harmon, Chair Emeritus, WRI Global Board of Directors; Jonathan Lash, President Emeritus, WRI; Gloria Walton, Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; Ani Dasgupta, President and CEO, WRI.

    International Offices

    WRI Brasil Board of Directors

    Johannes van de Ven
    CHAIR
    Chairman of the Board, Good Energies

    Orlando Strambi
    Professor and Coordinator of the Department of Transportation Engineering at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo

    Valmir Ortega
    Consultant collaborating with non-governmental organizations, multilateral cooperation agencies and foundations

    Janet Ranganathan
    Managing Director of Strategy, Learning, and Results, WRI

    Leonardo Fleck
    Senior Head of Sustainable Innovation, Santander Brazil

    Fernanda Lopes
    Program Director, Baobá Fund for Racial Equity

    Daniel Bento
    Lawyer and Executive Director at CEERT Racial and Gender Equity

    Marcelo Furtado
    Sustainability Director and Founding Partner of ZScore/BlockC

    WRI India Board of Directors

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

    Ashok Khosla
    Chairman, Development Alternatives Group

    Shashishekhar Pandit
    Chairman and Group CEO, KPIT Technologies Ltd.

    Kiran Pasricha
    Former CEO, Ananta Aspen Centre; Former Deputy Director General, Confederation Of Indian Industry (CII)

    WRI Indonesia Board of Directors

    Dino Patti Djalal
    CHAIR
    Ex-Deputy Foreign Minister, Republic of Indonesia

    Desi Anwar
    Director/Senior Anchor/Correspondent CNN Indonesia TV

    Dharsono Hartono
    President Director of PT. Rimba Makmur Utama

    Dr Mari Pangestu
    Professor of International Economic University of Indonesia

    Dr William Sabandar
    President of Intelligent Transport System

    Dr Masyita Crystallin
    Special Adviser to Minister of Finance on Fiscal Policy Formulation and Macroeconomy

    Moazzam Malik
    Managing Director for Global Operations of WRI

    Yenny Zanubba Wahid
    Director of The Wahid Institute

    China Strategy and Development Committee

    Ani Dasgupta
    CEO of WRI

    Yi Wang
    Member of Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress

    William Chen
    WRI Global Board of Director, Founding Managing Partner of ClearVue Partners

    Sze Ping Lo
    Program Director of Sequoia Climate Fund

    Zhongjing Wang
    CEO of Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance, Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank

    Li Fang
    Country Director of WRI China

    WRI Europe Board of Directors

    Stientje van Veldhoven
    CHAIR
    Vice President and Regional Director Europe, WRI

    Elizabeth Cook
    Executive Vice President for Governance & Development, WRI

    Janet Ranganathan
    Managing Director, Strategy, Learning and Results, WRI

     

     

    Adriana Lobo speaking at WRI Global board meeting in 2023
    Adriana Lobo, Managing Director of Global Presence and National Action, speaks during the 2023 Global Board meeting in Mexico.

    WRI México Board of Directors

    Cecilia Martínez
    CHAIR
    Former Regional Director, UN-HABITAT

    Roberto Aguerrebere Salido
    General Director of the Mexican Institute of Transportation

    Francisco Barnés
    Senior Consultant

    Julia Carabias
    Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Former Secretariat, Environment and Natural Resources

    Sergio Chagoya Díaz
    Partner, Santamarina + Steta

    Adrián Fernández Bremauntz
    Executive Director, Mexico Climate Initiative

    Ignacio García
    President, Mexico & Central America Cummins Inc.

    Ernesto Hanhausen
    Managing Partner, Circulate Capital for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Enrique Norten
    Director of TEN Architects

    Rolando Núñez Baza
    CEO, Roundtable by The 92nd St. Y, New York

    José Saruhkán Kermez
    Former National Coordinator, CONABIO

    Eugene Towle
    Managing Partner of Softec

    WRI Colombia Board of Directors

    Adriana Lobo
    Managing Director, Global Presence and National Action, WRI

    Shailesh Sreedharan
    Acting Chief Operations Officer, WRI

    Jocelyn Starzak
    General Counsel, WRI

    WRI Council of Board Chairs

    Jamshyd Godrej
    CHAIR
    WRI India Board Chair

    David Blood
    CO-CHAIR
    WRI Global Board Co-chair

    Dino Patti Djalal
    WRI Indonesia Board Chair

    Cecilia Martínez
    WRI México Board Chair

    Johannes van de Ven
    WRI Brasil Board Chair

     

    New Governance Model for Our Global Network

    In 2022, WRI’s Global Board created a Global Governance Task Force to identify opportunities for strengthening and enhancing our governance model. In April 2023, the Task Force delivered a set of recommendations, which incorporated input from across the Institute and addressed the findings of WRI’s 2021 External Review. In adopting these recommendations, the Global Board established a new “Globally Coordinated Network” governance model that aligns to our strategy and standardizes policies and processes across the Institute.

    The new governance model ensures equal representation of country offices in global decision making through overlapping board membership, including the election of a “dual member” from each independent country office board to the Global Board. Dual members from the WRI Brasil and WRI México boards were elected in February 2024, joining WRI India’s existing dual board member, with more dual member elections expected later in 2024.

    This shift in WRI’s governance supports a culture of learning and collaboration. It also brings greater clarity, consistency and connectivity to the Global Board’s role and responsibilities, as well as those of the country and regional bodies.