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
President of VIVA Trust, 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

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

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
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