Board of Directors

Ed Groark (Chair)
Principal, Riverbend Consulting
McLean, VA

Robert Charles Friese (Vice Chair)
Founding Partner, Shartsis Friese LLP
San Francisco, CA, USA

Robert Engelman (President)
Worldwatch Institute
Takoma Park, MD, USA

Nancy Hitz (Secretary)
Vice President, Hitz Foundation
Los Altos Hills, CA, USA

John Robbins (Treasurer)
Accenture, COO, Resources Global Market unit (retired)
Owner, Greathorn Properties, Inc. 
Concord, NC, USA

L. Russell Bennett, Esq. 
Chairman, Wings for Kids
Charleston, SC, USA

Mike Biddle
Founder, President, MBA Polymers
Richmond, CA, USA

Cathy Crain
Vice President/Senior Portfolio Manager (Retired)
Scudder Stevens and Clark
Cincinnati, OH, USA

Tom Crain
Managing Director (Retired), Scudder, Stevens and Clark
Cincinnati, OH, USA

James Dehlsen
Chairman, CEO, Clipper Windpower, Inc.
Goleta, CA, USA

Christopher Flavin 
Worldwatch Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA

Satu Hassi
Member of the European Parliament and Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Helsinki, Finland

Ping He
President, International Fund for China's Environment
Centreville, DC, USA

Jerre Hitz
Chief Engineer (Retired), TRW Systems Division
Los Altos Hills, CA, USA

Izaak van Melle
Former President, Van Melle Organization
Schoten, Belgium

Bo Normander
Director, Worldwatch Institute Europe
Copenhagen, Denmark

David Orr
Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Special Assistant to the President, Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH, USA

Richard Swanson
President Emeritus, SunPower Corporation
San Jose, CA, USA       

Emeritus:

Øystein Dahle 
Chairman, Worldwatch Norden
Slependen, Norway

Abderrahman Khene
Former Chairman, OPEC
El-Biar, Alger Algeria