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EDF zeroes in on the areas where our expertise can make the biggest difference for people and the planet.
Meet our team
Executive Team
Fred Krupp President
Jay Knott Senior EVP, Chief Operations Officer
Amanda Leland Executive Director
Catherine Nardone Senior EVP, Chief Development Officer
Gwen Ruta Senior Advisor
Joe Bonfiglio Senior VP, US Region
Margot Brown VP, Justice and Equity
Mark Brownstein Senior VP, Energy Transition
Sean Cook Senior VP, Chief Human Resources Officer
Jake DeMoe Associate Chief Development Officer
Jill Duggan Executive Director, EDF Europe
Elizabeth Gore Senior VP, Political Affairs
Steven Hamburg Senior VP, Chief Scientist
Ryan Hamilton Chief of Staff
Suzi Kerr Senior VP, Chief Economist
Amy Middleton Senior VP, Chief Marketing Officer
Hisham Mundol Chief Advisor, EDF India
Tom Murray Executive VP, Solutions
Bill O’Brien Chief Financial Officer
Eric Pooley Senior VP, Strategy and Communications
Eric Schwaab Senior VP, People and Nature
Sarah Vogel Senior VP, Healthy Communities
Jianyu Zhang VP, China
Board of Trustees
Officers
Mark W. Heising (Chair) Managing Director, Medley Partners
Matt Cohler (Vice Chair) General Partner, Benchmark
Katherine Lorenz (Vice Chair) President, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
Peggy M. Shepard (Vice Chair) Co-founder and Executive Director, West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT for Environmental Justice)
Trustees
G. Leonard Baker, Jr. Managing Director, Sutter Hill Ventures
Joshua Bekenstein Managing Director, Bain Capital
Georges C. Benjamin, MD Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Michael D. Bills Founder and CIO, Bluestem Asset Management
Shelby W. Bonnie Co-founder, CNET Networks
Christopher A. Cole Chairman, Ardea Partners, LLC
Art Cooley* Naturalist and former Expedition Leader, Lindblad Expeditions
Christopher Costello Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Bren School UCSB; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Leslie Dach Strategic Consultant
Ruth DeFries, Ph.D. Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University
Susan Ford Dorsey President, Sand Hill Foundation
Stanley Druckenmiller Investor
Kirsten J. Feldman Retired Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Chair, Steep Rock Association
Carl Ferenbach Chairman, High Meadows Foundation
Lynn R. Goldman, M.D. M.P.H. Pediatrician; Dean, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Charles J. Hamilton, Jr. Senior Counsel, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP
Alice C. Hill David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment, Council on Foreign Relations
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean Chairman, Carnegie Corporation of New York; Chairman, THK Consulting
Lisa Keith Development Consultant
Dani Lambert Investor and Advisor
Richard J. Lazarus Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard University
Abby Leigh Artist
Frank Loy Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs
Secretary Ray Mabus Former Secretary of the Navy
Susan Mandel ZOOM Foundation
Marie Lynn Miranda, Ph.D. Provost, University of Notre Dame
Kathryn Murdoch President, Quadrivium Foundation
Susan Oberndorf President, Susan and William Oberndorf Foundation
Kenneth Olden, Ph.D. Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program/National Institutes of Health; Former Director of the National Center for Environmental Assessment/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Stephen W. Pacala, Ph.D. Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Bruce V. Rauner Former Governor, State of Illinois; Former Chairman, GTCR
Julian H. Robertson, Jr. Founder and Chairman, Tiger Management, LLC
Sarah Robertson
Virginia Sall Co-founder, Sall Family Foundation
Lise Strickler Three Cairns Group
David S. Vogel CEO & Chief Scientist, Voloridge Investment Management
Abigail Wexner CEO, Whitebarn Associates
Charles F. Wurster, Ph.D.* Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Xue Lan Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Honorary trustees
Gene E. Likens, Ph.D.
N. J. Nicholas, Jr.
George M. Woodwell, Ph.D.*
*Founding trustees
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
EDF Europe Board
Carl Ferenbach (Chair) Chairman, High Meadows Foundation
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach Regional Economy Adviser, EMEA, Goldman Sachs International
Ravi Gurumurthy Chief Executive Officer, Nesta
Connie Hedegaard Former COP President, Former European Commissioner, Former Environment Minister for Denmark and Chair of KR Foundation among other senior appointments
Mark W. Heising Managing Director, Medley Partners
Andrea Monge Chief Executive Officer, Rebold
Jens Ulltveit-Moe Founder and CEO, Umoe Group
Lance West Private Investor
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
Stichting EDF Europe
Carl Ferenbach (Chair) Chairman, High Meadows Foundation
Connie Hedegaard Former COP President, Former European Commissioner, Former Environment Minister for Denmark and Chair of KR Foundation among other senior appointments
Roland Kupers Author and Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam
Andrea Monge Chief Executive Officer, Rebold
Jens Ulltveit-Moe Founder and CEO, Umoe Group
Lance West Private Investor
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
Advisory Trustees
Nancy Alderman
Karen M. Barnes
Rod Beckstrom
Wendy Benchley
Sally Bingham
W. Michael Brown
Keith Campbell
Tom Castro
Norman L. Christensen, Jr., Ph.D.
David G. Crane
John S. Curry, J.D.
Ann Doerr
Christopher J. Elliman
Jeanne Donovan Fisher
Jane Geniesse
Hannelore Grantham
Jeremy Grantham
Pricey Taylor Harrison
Norbert S. Hill, Jr.
Freeborn G. Jewett, Jr.
Arthur Kern
The Honorable Ricardo Lagos, Ph.D.
Gretchen Long
Jane Lubchenco
Susan Manilow
Harold A. Mooney, Ph.D.
Robert W. Musser
David O’Connor
Signe Ostby
Robert M. Perkowitz
Lewis S. Ranieri
E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
Sarah Liao Sau-tung, Ph.D.
Adele Simmons
Farwell Smith
Richard B. Stewart
W. Richard West, Jr.
Joanne Woodward
Blaikie Worth
Joy B. Zedler, Ph.D.
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
National Council
Barbara Bowman
Brook H. Byers
Douglas Campbell, Jr.
D. Wilson Ervin
Howell Ferguson
Tim Gomes
Alison Holtzschue
Al Jubitz
Barbara Kingsolver
Sidney R. Knafel
Roger Liddell
George A. Miller
Gilman Ordway
George D. Phipps
Samuel Reeves
John Sall
Roger W. Sant
Lynn Stern
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
Economics Advisory Council
Janet Currie Princeton University
Kent Daniel Columbia University
Nada Eissa Georgetown University
Carolyn Fischer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Meredith Fowlie UC Berkeley
Rashid Hassan University of Pretoria
Paul Joskow MIT
Catherine L. Kling Cornell University
Richard L. Revesz New York University School of Law & Institute for Policy Integrity
E. Somanathan Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Thomas Sterner EDF and University of Gothenburg
Maria Alejandra Velez Universidad de los Andes – Colombia
Senior Economic Advisors
Dallas Burtraw, Frank Convery, Chris Costello, Maureen Cropper, Michael Hanneman, Geoffrey Heal, Bob Litterman, Juan-Pablo Montero
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
Digital Advisory Council
Michael Bassik Co-founder, UNTU
Eric Berry Co-founder and CEO, TripleLift
Ginger Conlon Thought Leadership Director, Genesys
Weston Gaddy Partner, Radian Capital
Christian Kugel SVP, Global Head of Insights, R/GA
Mary Gail Pezzimenti VP, Content, Healthline Media
James Slezak CEO, Swayable
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
Texas Advisory Board
Marilu Hastings (Chair) Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
John S. Broude Attorney, Broude, Smith & Jennings, PC
Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Policy, Texas Southern University; Director, Robert D. Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice
Trammell S. Crow Founder, EarthX
Jeffrey Fearon, MD Physician, Craniofacial Center, Medical City Dallas
Rick Fine Partner, Brusniak Turner Fine LLP
James D. Finley CEO & Owner, Finley Resources, Inc.
John C. Kerr Senior Advisor & Partner, Moorman Kerr Interests & Seeker Partners
David C. Lake Architect, Lake/Flato Architects
Lila Luce, Ph.D.
Ann Newman Community Volunteer
Gilberto Ocañas Senior Advisor, Ocañas Group
Nancy Powell Moore Past President, The Powell Foundation
Susan Reese Attorney, Madison Partners, LLC
David Todd Attorney, Chiltepin Charitable Fund
Sue Wagley Community Volunteer, The Partnership Foundation
Mary Wallace Community Volunteer
Anne Elizabeth Wynn Writer and President, AeLK Foundation
Angus Wynne Owner, Wynne Entertainment
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees
North Carolina Advisory Board
Frank E. Navarro (Chair) Managing Principal, Navarro Lowrey, Inc.
Shannon Binns Executive Director, Sustain Charlotte
Thomas F. Darden, II, JD, MRP CEO, Cherokee Investment Partners
Shana Fulton Attorney at Brooks Pierce
Kathryn Heath, Ph.D. Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Flynn Health Holt Leadership
Olivia B. Holding President, EF Properties, Inc.; President, Ella Ann L. & Frank B. Holding Foundation
Marian Johnson-Thompson, Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Biology and Environmental Science, University of the District of Columbia
David M. Jones, DVM Former Director, North Carolina Zoological Park
Tom Okel Director, Barings Capital Investment Corporation
Jane Preyer Former Director, NC EDF Office
Sagar Sane Associate Director at High Lantern Group
Elizabeth Sasser Lecturer, University of North Carolina
This list is frequently updated at edf.org/board-trustees