EESI Board of Directors
Richard L. Ottinger,* Professor Emeritus and former Dean, Pace University School of Law; former Member of Congress (D-NY)

John J. Sheehan,* retired Legislative Director, United Steelworkers of America

Nancy Bacon, Senior Advisor, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

Ambassador Richard E. Benedick, President, Board of Directors, National Council for Science and the Environment; Senior Advisor, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL); former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health, and Natural Resources

Rosina M. Bierbaum Ph.D., Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan; served as Acting Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); directed OSTP’s Environment Division

Jared Blum,* President, Polyisocyanurate Insulation Manufacturers Association (PIMA)

Quincalee Brown, former Executive Director, Water Environment Federation

Frances S. Buchholzer, former Director, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

Mortimer M. Caplin, Founder and Partner, Caplin and Drysdale; former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service

Kenneth M. Connolly, Vice President of Government Relations, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc; former Minority Staff Director for the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee

Gerald Decker, Vice President, Midland Energy, LLC; Chairman Emeritus, Decker Energy International, Inc.

Roger Duncan, General Manager, Austin Energy

Bob Edgar, President and CEO of Common Cause; former General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; ordained United Methodist Church Minister; former Member of Congress (D-PA)

Shelley Fidler, Principal, Government Affairs, Energy and Environmental Policy, VanNess Feldman Attorneys at Law

John Gibbons, Resource Strategies; former Director of the White House Office of Technology Policy

Elliott Laws, Crowell and Moring LLP; former President of Safety, Health and Environment for Texaco Inc.; former EPA Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response

Ruth Patrick, Ph.D., Senior Curator, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Chris Schepis, Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Roland Burris (D-IL)

Claudine Schneider, Independent Consultant; former Member of Congress (R-RI)

* Executive Committee Members