Making Big Ideas Happen

Board of Directors

Our active and highly diverse Board of Directors is substantially engaged in WRI’s strategic direction and its program planning and outcomes.

Board of Directors

  • David Blood

    Chair, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Founding Partner and the Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

  • Vice Chair, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Former President and CEO, Citi Foundation; Former Director of Corporate Citizenship, Citi

  • Daniel Weiss

    Vice Chair, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Angeleno Group

  • Clara Barby.

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Senior Partner, Just Climate

  • Afsaneh M. Beschloss

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Founder and CEO, RockCreek

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Founder and Principal, Willows Investments

  • Jesper Brodin

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    President And CEO, Ingka Group

  • Sharan Burrow.

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Former General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Founding Managing Partner, ClearVue Partners

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; Chair, WRI India Board of Directors
    Chairman and Managing Director, Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co. Ltd., India

  • Lawrence E. Jones

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Vice President, International Programs, Edison Electric Institute

  • Frannie Léautier

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Senior Partner and CEO, SouthBridge Investments

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Director of Economic Strategy and Market Relations, Banco Safra Brazil;
    Former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, World Bank

  • Carlos Lopes

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Professor, Nelson Mandela School, University of Cape Town; Chair of the African Climate Foundation Board; Former Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa

  • Yunli Lou

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Founder and Managing Partner of Milestone Capital Partners

  • Cecilia Martinez.

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; WRI Mexico Board of Directors
    Former Director of the UN-Habitat

  • Kathleen McLaughlin

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    EVP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc.

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    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Chief Executive Officer, Mastercard

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Founding Partner and CEO, Macro Advisory Partners

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Professor of International Economic University of Indonesia

  • Michael Polsky

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Invenergy

  • Roger Sant

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Chairman, The Summit Foundation; Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation

  • Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Vice President of Private Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs

  • Johannes van de Ven.

    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors; Chair, WRI Brasil Board of Directors
    Executive Director of Good Energies Foundation

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    Member, WRI Global Board of Directors
    President & CEO, The Solutions Project

  • Ani Dasgupta

    President & CEO, World Resources Institute

Emeritus Board of Directors

  • Chair Emeritus
    Chairman, Caravel Management LLC; former President of the Export-Import Bank, United States

  • Vice Chair Emerita
    Former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, United States

  • Vice Chair Emerita
    President Emerita, Wheaton College, United States

  • President Emeritus
    Former President, Hampshire College

  • Founder and Trustee Emeritus
    Former Administrator, United Nations Development Programme, United States

  • Andrew Steer

    Former President and CEO, Bezos Earth Fund, Professor in Practice, Global School of Sustainability, The London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Vice Chair Emerita, WRI Global Board of Directors
    Senior Advisor, Analysis Group, Inc