Board of Directors

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

Robert Charles Friese (Vice-Chairman)
Founding Partner, Shartsis Friese LLP
San Francisco, CA

Geeta B. Aiyer (Treasurer)
President, Boston Common Asset Management, LLC
Boston, MA

Christopher Flavin (President)
President, Worldwatch Institute
Washington, DC

Ray Anderson
Chairman, Interface Inc.
Atlanta, GA

L. Russell Bennett, Esq.
Chairman, Wings for Kids (NGO)
Charleston, SC

Marcel Brenninkmeijer
Chairman, Good Energies
Zug, Switzerland

James Cameron
Vice Chairman, Executive Director
Climate Change Capital
London, England

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

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

Ed Groark
Principal, Riverbend Consulting
McLean, VA

Satu Hassi
Member of the European Parliament and Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety
Helsinki, Finland
 Jerre Hitz
Chief Engineer (Retired), TRW Systems Division
Los Altos Hills, CA

Nancy Hitz
Vice President, Hitz Foundation
Los Altos Hills, CA

Jeffrey Lipton
Managing Director, Jefferies & Co.
New York, NY

Akio Morishima
Chairman, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Kanagawa, Japan

Samuel S. Myers, MD
Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA

Ajit Nazre
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Palo Alto, CA

Izaak van Melle
Former President, Van Melle Organization
Breda, The Netherlands

Richard Swanson
President and Chief Technical Officer, SunPower Corporation
San Jose, CA       

Wren Wirth
President, The Winslow Foundation
Washington, DC

Emeritus:

Øystein Dahle (Chairman)
Chairman, Touring Association of Norway
Slependen, Norway

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

Andrew E. Rice
Former President, Society for International Development
Washington, DC
 

Worldwatch Institute Staff

Christopher Flavin – President
Administration
Barbara Fallin – Director of Finance and Administration

Development
Mary C. Redfern – Director of Institutional Relations
Trudy Loo – Director of Individual Giving
Alex Kostura – Development Assistant/Assistant to the President

Communications
Julia Tier – Communications Manager
Ben Block – Online Communications Associate

Publications and Marketing
Patricia Shyne – Director of Publications and Marketing

Research
Robert Engelman – Vice President for Programs
Gary Gardner – Senior Researcher
Alice Jaspersen – Vital Signs Online Director and Research Associate
Haibing Ma - China Program Manager
Lisa Mastny – Senior Editor
Danielle Nierenberg – Senior Researcher
Alexander Ochs – Director, Climate and Energy Program
Michael Renner – Senior Researcher and Director, Global Security Project
Saya Kitasei - MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow
Sam Shrank - MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow
Molly Theobald - Research Fellow

Senior Fellows
Erik Assadourian – Director, State of the World 2010
Christopher Bright
Zoë Chafe
Brian Halweil
Mia MacDonald
Eric Martinot
Molly O''Meara Sheehan
Sandra Postel
Payal Sampat
Janet Sawin
Viktor Vovk