Message from the Director
Brian Murray, Ph.D.
Director, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
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Nicholas Institute Board of Advisors
Chair William K. Reilly, Former Administrator, US Environmental Protection Agency (1989–1993)
Lori Bennear (Ex Officio), Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment
Diana Propper de Callejon, Managing Director, Cranemere
Disque Deane Jr., Chief Investment Officer and Co-Portfolio Manager, Water Asset Management LLC
Andrew Ellenbogen, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Power & Renewables, EIG Partners
Suedeen G. Kelly, Partner, Jenner & Block
Melinda Kramer, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Women’s Earth Alliance
Elizabeth Littlefield, Senior Counselor, Albright Stonebridge Group
Jerome Lynch (Ex Officio), Vinik Dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Christina Dowding Nicholas
Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, Former Secretary of State, Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany
Carter S. Roberts, President and CEO, World Wildlife Fund – United States
M.A. Rogers
William Rosenberg, President, E3 Gasification LLC
Serena Rwejuna, Partner, White & Case
Virginia Sall, Co-Founder and Director, Sall Family Foundation
Jim Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law UCLA School of Law and Bren School of the Environment at UC–Santa Barbara
Douglas Scott, Chair, Illinois Commerce Commission
Alison Taylor, Chief Sustainability Officer, ADM
Mark Tercek, Advisor, Author, and Speaker; Former President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Douglas Wheeler, Partner, Hogan Lovells US LLP
Ana Zacapa, Board Chair, Root Capital
