Environmental Defense Fund

Leadership & Staff

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Gene E Likens

• honorary trustee

Dan Mueller director, natural gas exploration and production at EDF

• director, natural gas exploration and production

Gwen Ruta VP, corporate partnerships

• VP, corporate partnerships ('00→?)

Barbara Kingsolver Novelist

• national advisory council member

David Todd founder of Conservation History Association of Texas

• Texas Regional Board member

Robin Rather CEO, Collective Strength

• Texas Regional Board member

Barbra Streisand Singer, actor, producer

• national advisory council member

Howell Lykes Ferguson Attorney; Chairman and chief executive of Lykes Brothers of Tampa, Fla.

• national advisory council member

Vickie Patton General Counsel, EDF

• general counsel

Roland C Clement

• honorary trustee

Board Members

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Edward Julius Stern Son of Leonard Stern

• Board Member

Katherine Lorenz President, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation

• Board Member

Susan Ford Dorsey President, Sand Hill Foundation

• Trustee

Abby Leigh artist

• Trustee

Susan Mandel Wife of hedge fund billionaire Stephen Mandel

• Trustee

Kirsten J Feldman Former managing director, Morgan Stanley

• Trustee

Frank E Loy Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

• Trustee

Ben Jealous Sierra Club executive director, former NAACP pres./CEO

• Board Member

Kristine Johnson Executive Director, Kingfisher Foundation

• Board Member

Michael Bills Founder and CIO, Bluestem Asset Management

• Board Member

Donors

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Walton Family Foundation Inc Philanthropic foundation affiliated with family that owns Walmart

• Grant · 53,000,000 USD ('03→'11)

Robert W Wilson Charitable Trust

• Grant · 24,000,000 USD ('08→'10)

Robertson Foundation Hedge fund manager Julian Robertson's foundation

• Grant · 14,000,000 USD (Dec 1 '09→Nov 30 '10) [+1]

• Grant · 10,600,000 USD

MacArthur Foundation Major private grant-making foundation; based in Chicago

• Grant · 10,000,000 USD ('15)

Bloomberg Philanthropies Includes Mike Bloomberg's personal giving and the Bloomberg Family Foundation

• Donation · 6,000,000 USD ('12)

Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

• Grant · 3,566,667 USD ('08→'10)

High Meadows Foundation

• Grant · 3,500,000 USD ('08)

Druckenmiller Foundation "supports medical research, education, and efforts to fight poverty."

• Grant · 3,500,000 USD ('11→'12) [+2]

• Grant · 2,000,000 USD ('09→'10)

• Grant · 1,700,000 USD ('10→'11)

Heising-Simons Foundation

• Grant · 3,218,750 USD

William K Bowes Jr Foundation

• Grant · 3,000,000 USD ('08→'10)

Donations

Public Citizen non-profit, liberal/progressive consumer rights advocacy group and think tank based in Washington, D.C

• Donation/Grant

New Jersey Future

• Donation/Grant

Climate Week NYC

• Donation/Grant

Child Organizations

Moms Clean Air Force EDF mothers' anti-air-pollution group

• a special program

Environmental Defense Action Fund Legislative arm of the Environmental Defense Fund

• Child Org

Parents

MethaneSAT, LLC Environmental Defense Fund subsidiary to measure oil and gas sector methane emissions

• Parent Org

Memberships

Nature4Climate Agro-Forestry And Engineered Nature

• Partner*

CEO Climate Dialogue Corporate- & fossil fuel industry-backed climate initiative

• Member

Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies

• Supporting Affiliate

Center for Responsible Shale Development, Inc. Not-for-profit developing performance standards for shale gas producers

• member

Gulf Coast Carbon Center project of UT Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology

• sponsor

Services & Transactions

Capturing Opportunity: Law and Policy Solutions to Accelerate Engineered Carbon Removal in California Study done by UCLA researchers funded by Bank of America to promote Direct Air Capture, bioenergy solutions in the name of a "negative carbon technologies" goal.

• Partner (Dec 1 '20)

William A Kirk

• lobbyist

Robert Harms Chairman, North Dakota Republican Party

• lobbyist

Global Environmental Management Initiative Corporate "environmental" campaign

• collaborator

Public Policy Consulting Colorado-based regulatory consulting practice

• Regulatory Consultant

Webber Energy Group energy consulting firm affiliated with UT

• partner

Southwestern Energy Shale gas development company

• partner

Miscellaneous Relationships

Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef beef industry greenwashing campaign

• Affiliation

350.org Building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis

• Affiliation

Voto Latino

• Affiliation