40th Anniversary Global Advisory Committee

Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Hasnaa Alaoui of Morocco: President, Mohammed VI Foundation
for the Protection of the Environment
Debbie Allen: American Actress, Choreographer, Television Director, Television Producer; Member of the
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
Ford W. Bell, DVM: President, American Association of Museums
Antonio H. Benjamin: Justice, High Court of Brazil (STJ); Co-President of the International Network for
Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) and Deputy-Chair of the IUCN Commission
on Environmental Law
Sir Richard Branson: British Entrepreneur; Founder and Chairman, Virgin Group
Lester Brown: Founder, Earth Policy Institute; Founder, Worldwatch Institute
Beverly J. Camhe: Producer, Beverly Camhe Productions
Richard Cizik: Evangelical Leader
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Environmental Artists
Cerphe Colwell: Radio Legend
Phillipe Cousteau Jr.: Co-Founder, President and CEO, EarthEcho International; Ocean
Environmentalist, Educator and Documentarian
Mia Couto: World-renowned Mozambican Writer and Biologist, Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park
Leonardo DiCaprio (Co-Chair): American Actor and Film Producer; Environmentalist; Founder, Leonardo
DiCaprio Foundation; Board of Trustees, National Resources Defense Council; Board Member,
Global Green USA
S. Richard Fedrizzi: President, CEO and Founding Chairman, United States Green Building Council
Jose Maria Figueres: Former President of Costa Rica; Sustainable Development and Technology Expert
Oliver Fleurot: CEO of Public Relations, Corporate and Financial Communications and Events
Management, Publicis
Al Gore: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; 45th Vice President of the United States
Paul Hawken: Director, Natural Capital Institute (NCI)
Denis Hayes (Chair): President and CEO, Bullitt Foundation; Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970
Joe Holland: United States Olympic Nordic Combined Skier and three-time National Nordic Combined
Championship Winner
David L. Hunke: President and Publisher, USA Today
Benjamin T. Jealous: President and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP)
Yolanda Kakabadse: President, Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA)
Donna Karan: Fashion Designer and Creator, DKNY; Founder, Urban Zen Foundation
Katie Lee: Cookbook Author
Sheri Liao: President, Global Village of Beijing
Daniel Libeskind: Architect and Artist; Founder, Studio Daniel Libeskind
Maya Lin: Environmentalist, Artist, and Architect
Mindy S. Lubber: President, Ceres; Director and Investor, Network on Climate Risk
Dame Ellen MacArthur DBE: World Record Holder for solo sailing around the Earth and Dame
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Julia Marton-Lefèvre: Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Bill McKibben: American Environmentalist and Writer; Founder, 350.org
Edward Miles: Senior Fellow, Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO);
Co-Director, Center for Science in The Earth System, JISAO
Mrs. Gaylord Nelson: Wife of the late Senator Gaylord Nelson, the Founder of Earth Day
Shaquille O’Neal: Professional Basketball Player, National Basketball Association (NBA)
Raymond C. Offenheiser, Jr.: President, Oxfam America
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)
John Podesta: President, Center for American Progress
Carl Pope: Executive Director, Sierra Club
David A. Randall: Recipient of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Medal for
Exceptional Scientific Achievement and the Meisinger Award of the American Meteorological
Society
Ambassador Mohamed Sahnoun: Ambassador, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General;
Board Member, International Institute for Sustainable Development
U.S. Senator Bernard Sanders: United States Senator, from the State of Vermont
Larry Schweiger: President, National Wildlife Federation
Martin Scorsese: American Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Actor, Sikelia Productions;
Founder and Chairman, World Cinema Foundation; President, Film Foundation
Pete Seeger: Environmental Activist; Performing Artist
Jigar Shah: CEO, Carbon War Room
Ben Silverman: Executive Producer, The Office; Creator, The Biggest Loser; Founder and CEO, Electus
James Gustave Speth: Professor, Vermont Law School; Dean, Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies; Co-Founder, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Eric A. Spiegel: President and CEO, Siemens Corporation; Member, Business Roundtable
Achim Steiner: Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Rabbi Warren Stone: Environmental Chair, Central Conference of Rabbis
Barbra Streisand (Co-Chair): American Singer, Composer, Film and Theatre Actress, Director, and
Producer; Founder and President, The Streisand Foundation; Kennedy Center Honoree
Mark Tercek: President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Ted Turner: Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Turner Foundation; Founder and
Chairman, United Nations Foundation; Founder, Turner Endangered Species Fund; Founder, Cable
News Network (CNN)
James West: CEO, Alamy Limited
Edward O. Wilson: Harvard University Research Professor Emeritus; Two-time winner of the Pulitzer
Prize; Scientist and Environmentalist
Abdelkbir Zahoud: Secretary of State, Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment of Morocco

For further information please contact

Kathleen Rogers ● President, Earth Day Network ● rogers@earthday.net ● (202) 518-0044