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Commissioners

Co-Chairs

Howard H. Baker Jr. (R - TN)

Former Senator

J. Bennett Johnston (D - LA)

Former Senator

Commissioners

Linda Bilmes, MBA

  • Professor of Public Policy
    Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
  • Former Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer
    US Department of Commerce

James Blanchard, Esq

  • Former Governor of Michigan
  • Former U.S. Representative (D - MI))
  • Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada

Milton Chen, PhD

  • Executive Director
    The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Rita Colwell, PhD

  • Distinguished Professor (Microbiology and Biotechnology)
    Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and The University of Maryland, College Park
  • Chief Scientist at Canon U.S. Life Sciences
  • Former Director of the National Science Foundation

Sylvia Earle, PhD

  • Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
  • Co-Founder and Chairman
    Deep Ocean Exploration & Research (DOER)
  • Former Chief Scientist
    National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

John Fahey

  • President and Corporate Executive Officer (CEO)
    National Geographic Society

Belinda Faustinos

  • Executive Director
    San Gabriel & Lower Los Angeles Rivers & Mountains Conservancy

Victor Fazio, Jr.

  • Former U.S. Representative (D - CA)
  • Former California State Assemblyman

Carolyn Finney, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
    University of California, Berkeley

Denis Galvin

  • Former Deputy Director
    National Park Service
  • National Parks Conservation Association Board Member

Maria Hinojosa

  • Senior Correspondent for NOW newsmagazine for PBS
  • Anchor and Managing Editor of NPR’s Latino USA
  • Formerly News Correspondent for CNN

Sally Jewell

  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)
  • National Parks Conservation Association Board Member

Tony Knowles

  • Former Governor of Alaska
  • Former Mayor of Anchorage
  • Former Chairman, Western Governor’s Association

Stephen Lockhart, MD, PhD

  • Chair, Board of Directors
    NatureBridge
  • Regional Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
    East Bay Region, Sutter Health

Gretchen Long, MBA

  • Former Chair, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
  • Former Chair, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)
  • Former Chair, Greater Yellowstone Coalition
  • Trustee, National Parks Conservation Association, former Board Chair, and current Board Member

James McPherson, PhD

  • George Henry '86 Professor of American History Emeritus
    Princeton University
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner

Gary B. Nash, PhD

  • Professor Emeritus, Department of History
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Sandra Day O'Connor

  • Associate Justice (Ret.)
    Supreme Court of the United States

Rob Portman

  • Former Director, Office of Management and Budget
  • Former U.S. Trade Representative
  • Former U.S. Representative (R – OH)

Timothy J. Roemer, PhD

  • Former U.S. Representative (D - IN)
  • President, Center for National Policy

Jerry L. Rogers

  • Former Associate Director for Cultural Resources and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places
    National Park Service

Deborah A. Shanley, EdD

  • Dean, Brooklyn College School of Education
    City University of New York (CUNY)

Peter M. Senge, PhD

  • Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Founding Chair of the Society of Organizational Learning

W. Richard West, Esq

  • Founding Director Emeritus
    National Museum of the American Indian
  • NPCA Board Member

Margaret Wheatley, EdD

  • Board President Emerita and Management Consultant on Organizational Behavior
    Berkana Institute

Edward O. Wilson, PhD

  • Pelligrino University Research Professor
  • Curator of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology
    Harvard University