The President of CIES is Dr. William Schlesinger.
His email is schlesingerw@ecostudies.org.

Board of Trustees:

Mr. Edward A. Ames, Secretary
New York, New York
Trustee, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust; Chairman of the Board, Hudson River Foundation; Member of the Governing Council, The Wilderness Society; Member of the Board, Open Space Institute; Member of the Board, Wave Hill

Mr. Steven M. Benardete
Amenia, New York
Board of Directors, Dutchess Land Conservancy; Board of Directors, Foundation for Community Health, Sharon, Connecticut

Dr. Stephen R. Carpenter
Madison, Wisconsin
Stephen Alfred Forbes Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Board of Directors, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics; Co-Editor-in-Chief, “Ecosystems”

Dr. Sallie W. Chisholm
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lee and Geraldine Martín, Professor of Environmental Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Director, The Earth System Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mr. Charles H. Collins, Treasurer
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Managing Director, The Forestland Group LLC; Director, Orvis/Cushman Wakefield; Director, World Forestry Center; Director, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership; Director, Great Mountain Forest Corporation; External Advisory Board, Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University

Mr. Geoffrey W. Dann
New York, New York
Investment Advisor and Vice President, Lingold Associates LLC

Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo, Vice Chair
Stanford, California
Bing Professor in Environmental Science; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Mr. Bradford S. Gentry
New Haven, Connecticut
Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Of Counsel, Baker & McKenzie; Co-Director, Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; New England Advisory Committee, Trust for Public Land; Advisory Committee, Climate Change Capital; Long Range Planning Committee, Adirondack League Club

Mr. Lionel Goldfrank III
New York, New York
Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden

Mrs. Anne A. Hubbard
Bronxville, New York
Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden

Mrs. Edith W. Kean
New York, New York
Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden; Vice Chair, Friends of the High School for Environmental Studies; Advisory Committee, Trust for Public Land

Ms. Gretchen Long, Past Chair & Honorary Trustee
Wilson, Wyoming
Trustee Emeritus, National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, DC; Board of Directors, The Land Trust Alliance, Washington, DC; Board of Directors, Scenic Hudson, Inc., Poughkeepsie, NY; Honorary Director, The Murie Center, Moose, WY; Board of Trustees, World Resources Institute

Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy
Washington, D.C.
President, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment; Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Board of Managers, The New York Botanical Garden; Member of the Board, Woods Hole Research Center; Member of the Board, American Museum of Natural History; Member of the Board, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Chairman of the External Advisory Board, Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies

Dr. Carolyn O. Mattoon, Vice Chair
Sharon, Connecticut
Trustee, Cityterm

Mr. Robert Quinlan
New York, New York
President, Quinlan Development Group LLC

Dr. Paul G. Risser, Chair
Norman, Oklahoma
Chair and Chief Operating Officer, University of Oklahoma Research Cabinet; Acting Director of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum; Board of Directors, Sand County Foundation; Chairman, National Advisory Board, Long-Term Ecological Research Program, National Science Foundation; Board of Directors, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Mr. John E. Rorer
New Rochelle, New York
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, American Museum of Natural History; Chairman of the Board, Collegiate Church of New York City

Dr. William H. Schlesinger, President
Millbrook, New York
President, Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Member, National Academy of Sciences

Mrs. Elizabeth Farran Tozer
New York, New York
Member of the Board: Millbrook Golf and Tennis Club; Museum of the City of New York; National Academy of Design; New York Foundation of Senior Citizens; Ohio Wesleyan University; Utah Opera and Symphony; Preservation League of New York State; Ross Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University; Sundance Institute; The Park City Historical Society and Museum; School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center; Advisory Board, Park Cit, Utah

Mrs. Julia Harte Widdowson
Millbrook, New York
Board of Trustees, American Farmland Trust; Board of Trustees, The Orion Society; Board of Trustees, International Council for the musée des arts décoratifs