Resources for the Future

Resources for the Future (RFF) "is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research -- rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences -- on environmental, energy, and natural resource issues. Although RFF is headquartered in Washington, D.C., its research scope comprises programs in nations around the world.

"Founded in 1952, RFF was created at the recommendation of William Paley, then head of the Columbia Broadcasting System, who had chaired a presidential commission that examined whether the United States was becoming overly dependent on foreign sources of important natural resources and commodities. RFF became the first think tank devoted exclusively to natural resource and environmental issues." [1]

Directors

• Lawrence H. Linden (Member of the Executive Committee) - Chair - Advisory Director, The Goldman Sachs Group
• Frank E. Loy (Member of the Executive Committee) - Vice Chair - Formerly Under Secretary of State, Global Affairs U.S. Department of State
• Philip R. Sharp (Member of the Executive Committee) - President - President, Resources for the Future
• Catherine G. Abbott (Member of the Executive Committee)
• Vicky A. Bailey - President, Anderson Stratton International LLC
• Michael J. Bean - Chair, Wildlife Program, Environmental Defense
• Preston Chiaro - Chief Executive Officer, Rio Tinto Energy Group
• Norman L. Christensen, Jr. - Professor of Ecology and Executive Director, Duke Environmental Leadership Program, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
• Maureen L. Cropper - Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
• W. Bowman Cutter - Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
• John M. Deutch - Institute Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• E. Linn Draper, Jr. - Retired Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, American Electric Power Company, Inc.
• Mohamed T. El-Ashry - Retired CEO and Chairman, Global Environment Facility
• J. Andres Espinosa - Head, International Consumer Lending, American Express Co.
• Daniel C. Esty - Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale Law School
• Linda J. Fisher - Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, DuPont Environment & Sustainable Growth Center
• Dod A. Fraser (Member of the Executive Committee) - Sackett Partners Incorporated, White Plains, NY
• Kathryn S. Fuller - Chair, Ford Foundation Board of Trustees
• Mary A. Gade - Region Five Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency
• James Greenwood - President and Chief Executive Officer, Biotechnology Industry Organization
• David G. Hawkins - Director of the Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council
• R. Glenn Hubbard - Dean, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
• Charles F. Kalmbach - Chief Executive Officer, DBM, Inc.
• Michael A. Mantell - Attorney, Resources Law Group
• Steven W. Percy - Former CEO, BP America
• Matthew R. Simmons - Former Chairman and President, Simmons & Company International
• Robert N. Stavins - Albert Pratt Professor of Business & Government &

Chairman of the Environment & Natural Resources Faculty Group, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Source

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Contact

Web: http://www.rff.org