Resource Renewal Institute Directors

Bill Bryan
Founder, Off the Beaten Path

Yvon Chouinard
Chairman, Lost Arrow Foundation
Founder and President, Patagonia, Inc., Chouinard Equipment Ltd., and Great Pacific Iron Works

Christian P. Erdman, Treasurer
Vice President, Ulupalakua Ranch, Inc.
Trustee, Carol Buck Sells Foundation

Annette Gellert, Chair
Trustee, The Fred Gellert Foundation

Alfred E. Heller
Editor and Publisher, World’s Fair
Board of Directors, Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation
The Nature Conservancy, California Chapter

Huey D. Johnson
Founder and President, Resource Renewal Institute
Former Secretary for Natural Resources, State of California
Founder and former President, Trust for Public Land

Sylvia McLaughlin, Secretary
Cofounder, Save San Francisco Bay Association

Richard Silberman
President, Operating Advisors, Inc.

Dr. Juan Carlos Belausteguigoitia
Coordinator, Global International Waters Assessment, UNEP, Sweden

Mr. Erik Brandsma
Consultant, Environmental Resources Management, Stockholm, Sweden

Mr. Bob Currie
Former Director of Planning, US Environmental Protection Agency

Dr. Tom W. Fookes
Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Property and Planning, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Dr. Paul E. de Jongh
Director of Nature Management, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management & Fisheries, The Hague, The Netherlands

Ms. Ann Magee
Director of Strategic Projects, Waitakere City Council, Waitakere City, New Zealand

Dr. Wim C.J. Quik
Former Technical Director, Association of the Dutch Chemical Industry

Ms. Stacy A. Richards
Principle, Stacy Richards & Associates; Former Deputy Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental
Protection, Harrisburg, PA

Mr. Rodney Sando
Director, Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority, Portland, OR

Ms. Annet van Schreven
Consultant, Atalaya Management Consultancy, The Hague, The Netherlands

Mr. Herb Simmens
Director, Office of State Planning, New Jersey Dept. of the Treasury, Trenton, NJ

Dr. Robert W. Slater
Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Environment Canada, Quebec, Canada

Mr. Donald B. Straus
Trustee, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME

Mr. Adam Werbach
Founder, Act Now Productions; CEO, US Sky Trust, Inc., San Francisco, CA

Mr. Robert C. Wilkinson
President, Board of Directors, Earth Island Institute, San Francisco, CA

Mr. John C. Williams
Vice President of Academic Affairs, Menlo College, Atherton, CA

Mr. Hans van Zijst
Technical Director, Environmental Resources Management, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Dr. ir. Kees Zoeteman
Chairman of Globus, Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Huey D. Johnson hdj@rri.org
Huey D. Johnson, RRI’s Founder, President, and CEO, is a former California Secretary for Resources (1978-82). During this time he was responsible for creating and implementing one of the first comprehensive approaches to resource management, the 20-year “Investing for Prosperity” program. Among other social and environmental benefits, this early version of a green plan increased jobs in the fisheries, forestry and alternative energy industries. Prior to his appointment as Secretary, Huey founded and served as President of the Trust for Public Land, and is the former Western Regional Director of the Nature Conservancy. His pioneering policies and land acquisitions have made these organizations two of the largest and most effective in the country. Mr. Johnson has a long record of success in building political coalitions to achieve substantive policy change.

Allison Lengauer Jordan allison@rri.org
As Resource Renewal Institute’s (RRI’s) Vice President, Allison manages operations and oversees RRI’s Campaign for a Sustainable Future and its major programs—the States Campaign, Green Plan Leadership Program, and Green Plan Center—as well as RRI’s international outreach and education. Allison also served as Acting Executive Director, Director of Development and Assistant to the President. In 2001, Allison was a fellow with the German Marshall Fund’s American Marshall Memorial Fellowship Program-a policy-focused European study tour and series of on-going exchanges and seminars designed to foster transatlantic understanding and cooperation. Prior to joining RRI in 1996, she taught English in rural Japan and worked at Deloitte & Touche Management Consulting. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Psychology from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.

Eric Siy eric@rri.org
Eric Siy is Vice President, based at RRI’s Albany, NY office. As a leading state advocate for protection of key natural areas, most notably the Adirondack Park, Mr. Siy successfully engaged a broad cross-section of interests in the debate. In the campaign to create an Environmental Protection Fund in New York, Eric led efforts to unite labor unions, religious groups, conservation and recreation organizations, and many others in support of the measure, which now provides $100 million annually for environmental protection and restoration. Eric was also the chief catalyst in New York for revitalization of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. A partnership with politically potent interests like the New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials prompted the Governor and the Legislature to set the pace nationally for a restored LWCF. Eric received a Masters degree from the Yale School of Environmental Studies and Forestry in 1988.

Beth Vaughan beth@rri.org
Beth Vaughan joined RRI in March 2000 as Director of Communications. She is now RRI’s Director of Programs. She relocated to San Francisco from New Zealand where she worked and studied for over 12 years. Originally from Canada, Beth gained her MSc. in Geography at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. While completing her Masters she worked at the Ministry for the Environment on the Resource Management Law Reform. On the date the Act commenced (Oct. 1991), Beth was seconded from the Ministry to the Minister for the Environment’s office as policy advisor on the Act and other environmental issues. After the 1993 election, Beth remained in the New Zealand parliament as policy advisor to the Minister of Conservation and Lands until Dec. 1996.

David Moore
David Moore is an advisor and consultant to RRI. Mr. Moore recently retired from his position as Executive Director of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation (NJCF) and now serves as a senior advisor and a member of the Board of Trustees. As Director for 30 years, David Moore built New Jersey Conservation Foundation into one of the nation’s premier land conservation organizations. Under Moore’s leadership, NJCF has been a major force behind the Pinelands Protection Act, the Freshwater Wetlands Protection Act, the Open Lands Management Act, the Agricultural Retention and Development Act, and every Green Acres bond (including the most recent, funding one million acres of open space protection). He was instrumental in helping found such organizations as the Stockton Alliance, the Highlands Coalition, ANJEC, and the Pinelands Preservation Alliance.

Dr. Wim Quik
Dr. Wim Quik is an advisor and consultant to RRI. From 1992 through the middle of 1998, Dr. Quik served as the Technical Director of the Dutch Association of the Chemical Industry. In this position, he was actively involved in the development, implementation and execution of environmental agreements between the Dutch government and the chemical industry. He also advocated and promoted the use of environmental agreements within the European Chemical Industry. Previously, Dr. Quik worked for Royal Dutch/Shell as a chemical engineer, where he held a variety of functions in research, management, process development and planning. In these capacities, Dr. Quik worked in the Netherlands, South Africa, and Norway.

John Skov jskov@rri.org
John Skov has served as the business advisor for Resource Renewal Institute since 1984. He is the principal of J. Skov and Associates, a management consulting firm dealing with organizational development and mediation. Previously, Mr. Skov worked in personnel and industrial relations for Crown Zellerbach Corporation in San Francisco.