Board of Trustees
Rocky Mountain Institute is governed by a self-perpetuating Board that has complete oversight and policy responsibility, is kept currently informed of the Institute's affairs, confers frequently on an individual basis with RMI's operating officers, and meets for two days twice a year.
Current Board members are:- Adam Albright. Chair, Nominating Committee. BA, Brown; investor, artist, farmer, philanthropist; President, ARIA Foundation; Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, Redefining Progress; Worldwatch Institute; Futures for Children, Population Communications International, Kripalu Yoga Fellowship.
- Ray C. Anderson. BS, Georgia Tech; Chairman and founder (1973), Interface, Inc. Millennium Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year for the Southeast Region, Sustainability Leadership Award 2001; Mitchell Award 2001. Co-chair, President's Council on Sustainable Development; author, Mid-Course Correction.
- Myron P. Curzan. Chair, Finance Committee. BA, JD, Columbia; MA, Yale. CEO, UniDev LLC; CEO, The National Captioning Institute; Director and former Vice Chairman, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Trustee, The George Washington University; former Director of WETA-TV, Council on Public Interest Law, etc.
- Michael Fain. University of Chicago; Humanities, Geology; Engineering Director, Hydrodynamics Lab, University of Chicago; Mechanical and Optical Engineer and Project Manager, various aerospace companies; Founder and former President, Alphametrics, Ltd., manufacturer of precision light measuring equipment; Co-founder and former Chairman of Computers for Kids Foundation; Board member of Aspen Center for Physics and Independence Pass Foundation; Member of National Council of NPR and Anderson Ranch Arts Center; Co-author, with wife, Judith Barnard, of eleven contemporary novels.
- John C. Fox. Chair of the Board, Executive Committee, and Consulting Practice Committee. BASc, Toronto; MBA, McMaster; PEng; Managing Director, Perseus LLC; former COO, Ontario Power Generation; former Manager, Energy Efficiency Services, Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
- James E. (Jay) Hughes, Jr. BA, Princeton University; Certificate in European Studies, Princeton University; JD, Columbia University; emeritus Member, Board of The Philanthropic Initiative; Councilor, Family Office Exchange; emeritus Faculty Member, Institute for Private Investors; retired Member, Board of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation; Senior Dean, Family Capital Institute; Advisor, New Ventures in Philanthropy; Member, Circle of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences; Member, Board of Advisors to the Spiritual Paths Foundation; Member, Roundtable of The Hastings Institute; Member of the boards of various private trust companies; Advisor to numerous investment institutions; Author, Family Wealth: Keeping it in the Family.
- Craig Kennedy. AB, Civilization Studies, University of Chicago; MBA University of Chicago; MA, Social Service Administration, University of Chicago; President of the German Marshall Fund since 1995; President of the Joyce Foundation from 1986 to 1992; employed with Richard J. Dennis, a Chicago investor and philanthropist; created a consulting firm working with nonprofit and public sector clients including the City of Chicago and the Environmental Defense Fund; serves on the Board of the nonprofit Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and as an independent trustee of the Van Kampen mutual funds.
- Elaine LeBuhn. BBA, Hardbarger College, Raleigh, NC; Member of the Board and Chair Development Committee, National Public Radio; Board Member, the Rainforest Alliance; Chair of the Center for Excellence in the Arts for Colorado Mountain College; former Director of Development, Aspen Institute; former Administrative Manager, North Carolina Alcoholism Research Authority.
- Amory B. Lovins. RMI Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist. MA, Oxford (by special resolution), nine honorary doctorates; physicist, author (29 books), consultant; MacArthur Fellow; "Alternative Nobel," Onassis, Shingo and Mitchell Prizes, Heinz, Lindbergh, World Technology, and "Hero for the Planet" awards.
- David Orr. BA, Westminster; MA, Michigan State; PhD, University of Pennsylvania; Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, trustee of numerous private foundations, author of five books.
- Martha C. Pickett. RMI Executive Director, 1998–present. MA, Colorado; JD, Denver; private law practice in Aspen area; legal counsel to RMI since 1991; President, Windstar Land Conservancy.
- Suzanne Woolsey. BA, Stanford. MA, PhD, Harvard. Chief Communications Officer of The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Serves on boards of the German Marshall Fund, Van Kampen Mutual Funds, the Colorado College, Neurogen Corporation and Intelligent Medical Devices LLC, and the Institute for Defense Analyses. Former Associate Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget; consulting partner, Coopers and Lybrand; member, Washington Post editorial board; Chief Operating Officer, The National Academies.
The following are nonvoting Emeritus Board Members:
- Irvin C. Bupp. BA, Swarthmore; MPA and PhD, Harvard; energy/utility authority; ex-faculty, Harvard Business School; co-author, Energy Future; Managing Director, Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
- Michael Edesess. BS, MIT; PhD, Northwestern; Founding Partner and Chief Economist, Lockwood Financial Group; Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Studies, University of Denver; Director, International Development Enterprises; investment and economics consultant.
- Dana Jackson. BS, U. Kansas; MS, Kennedy School, Harvard; Associate Director, Land Stewardship Project; former Pew Scholar; cofounder, The Land Institute; Board member, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture.
- James T. Mills. LLB, Cincinnati, Georgia Tech and Emory; Principal, The Mills Group; former General Agent, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company; former Trustee, Georgia Conservancy.
- Adele Smith Simmons. BA, Radcliffe; PhD, Oxford; former President, Hampshire College and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Vice Chair, Chicago Metropolis 2020; Senior Associate, International School, University of Chicago; Director, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Union of Concerned Scientists, The Synergos Institute; World Bank Institute Advisory Committee; former member of President Carter's Commission on World Hunger and President George H.W. Bush's Commission on Environmental Quality.
- Michael Stranahan. BA, MS, Harvard; former schoolteacher; investor; Director, KAJX Aspen Public Radio and of other nonprofits and for-profits in the Roaring Fork Valley and elsewhere.
The following are nonvoting Special Advisors:
- Peter Bradford, lately Chair of the New York PSC and Maine PUC.
- Jason Clay, Senior Fellow, Social Science and Economics Program, World Wildlife Fund, and Coordinator, Systems Group on Forests.
- The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Director of the Interfaith Center and lately Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
- Robert Nagourney, founder, Rational Therapeutics Cancer Evaluation Center.
- James Newcomb, CEO of E SOURCE.
- Peter Schwartz, President of Global Business Network.
- Bardyl Tirana, Esq., President of the China/USA Educational Fund, former Director of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.
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