Chairman of the Board
Hank Habicht
Sail Venture Partners
Henry “Hank” Habicht II possesses an extensive environmental and energy background in both the public and private sectors. He currently serves as Managing Partner of SAIL Venture Partners, a leading venture capital fund investing in leading-edge clean energy, water and related technologies. Prior to his SAIL affiliation, Mr. Habicht served as CEO of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), where he now serves as Vice Chairman.
President
Stephen D’Esposito
RESOLVE
Stephen D’Esposito is President of RESOLVE. RESOLVE builds strong, enduring solutions to environmental, social, and health challenges. We help community, business, government, and NGO leaders get results and create lasting relationships through collaboration. RESOLVE is an independent, non-profit organization with a thirty-year track record of success.
Directors
Anthony (Tony) Hodge
International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
Tony Hodge is President of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), London UK and a Professor of Mining and Sustainability, Queen’s University Kingston. Prior to his appointment at Queen’s University, he taught at Royal Roads University in their graduate program on environment and management. He also held an adjunct position with the School of Public Policy at the University of Victoria
Thomas H. Milch
Arnold & Porter LLP
Thomas H. Milch is a partner at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., where he directs the activities of the firm’s environmental practice group. His practice principally includes federal enforcement and private party litigation under U.S. environmental law, counseling national and multinational companies on environmental compliance issues, and addressing environmental issues that arise in complex corporate and real estate transactions
Caroline Rees
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Caroline Rees is Director, Governance & Accountability Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also an advisor to Professor John Ruggie, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights and member of the Board of the Institute for Human Rights and Business
Rebecca R. Rubin
Marstel-Day, LLC
Rebecca R. Rubin is the Founder, President and CEO of Marstel-Day, LLC, a 75-person environmental enterprise with offices in Alexandria and Fredericksburg, VA and Oakland, CA. She established Marstel-Day in 2002 as an expression of her commitment to the conservation of natural resources, especially habitat and open space, energy, water, and the resolution of issues at their intersections.
Colin Rule
eBay and PayPal
Colin Rule is Director of Online Dispute Resolution for PayPal. He has worked in the dispute resolution field for more than fifteen years as a mediator, trainer, and consultant. He is currently Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School
Lynn Scarlett
Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future
Lynn Scarlett, deputy secretary and chief operating officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2005 to 2009, has joined RFF as a visiting scholar, focusing on climate change and its effects on land, water, and wildlife; conservation policies; and ecosystem adaptation strategies
Glenn Sigurdson
Principal, CSE Group
Glenn has a long association with Simon Fraser University as an adjunct professor and associate of the Learning Strategies Group in the Beedie School of Business, and as Senior Dialogue Associate of the Morris J. Wosk Center for Dialogue.
Paul B. Thompson
Michigan State University
Paul B. Thompson holds the W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. His research has centered on ethical and philosophical questions associated with agriculture and food, and especially concerning the guidance and development of agricultural technoscience.
Jeffrey Wright
Taia Peace Foundation
Jeffrey Wright is a critically acclaimed actor. Wright is chairman and co-founder of Taia, LLC and Taia Peace Foundation and Vice Chairman of Taia Lion Resources, Inc.
