About the Institute

Chair William K. Reilly

Senior Advisor, TPG Capital and Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993)

Vice Chair Susan Bell

Senior Advisor, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment

Frances Beinecke

President, Natural Resources Defense Council

Ex Officio William Chameides

Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

Disque Deane Jr.

Chief Investment Officer and Co Portfolio Manager, Water Asset Management LLC

N.J. Nicholas Jr.

Director, Boston Scientific Corporation, Xerox Corporation, and Time Warner Cable

Peter M. "Pete" Nicholas

Co-Founder and Chairman, Boston Scientific Corporation

Diana Propper de Callejon

General Partner, Expansion Capital Partners

Cornelia Quennet-Thielen

State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany

Carter S. Roberts

President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund – United States

James E. Rogers

Chairman, President, and CEO, Duke Energy

William L. Rogers

Founder, TexWest, LLC

Virginia Sall

Co-Founder and Director, The Sall Family Foundation

James Salzman

Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law and Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy

Joseph A. Stanislaw

Founder, The JAStanislaw Group, LLC

Mark Tercek

President and CEO of The Nature Conservancy