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External Advisory Board
External Advisory Board
Representing a wide range of sectors, our External Advisory Board provides broad-based expertise to inform and shape institute strategy. By expanding our perspective on pressing sustainability challenges, these sustainability leaders play a key role in fostering U-M's global leadership in the field.

Andy Buchsbaum
Vice President, National Wildlife Federation (Retired)

Tom Cook
Executive Director
Cook Family Foundation

Bernard David
Founder and Advisory Board Chairman
Global CO2 Initiative

Lois DeBacker
Managing Director, Environment Program
The Kresge Foundation

Monica Ellis
Chief Executive Officer
Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF)

John Erb
Chair and CEO
Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation

Frank Ettawageshik
President
Association on American Indian Affairs

Don Graham
Chairman
The Graham Group

Peter Gudritz
Global Director, Business & Marketing Communications
Dow

Steve Hamburg
Chief Scientist
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Carl Page
President
Anthropocene Institute

Lana Pollack
Former Chair US Section
International Joint Commission

Rick Rothman
Partner
Morgan - Lewis & Bockius LLP

William Thomas
Counsel and Head of Environment, Health and Safety
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Mark Van Putten
President & Founder
ConservationStrategy LLC

Mike Witt
Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer
Northrop Grumman
Previous Members
Dean Adler, David Baxter, Brent Blackwelder, Mark Bonnema, Mary Buzby, Tom Catania, Libby Cheney, Jeff Connelly, Sanjay Correa, Alex Green, DeDe Hapner, Michelle Harvey, Neil Hawkins, George Heartwell, Gary Hirshberg, Diane Holdorf, Robert Hutchinson, Richard Jarman, Mark Kane, Charles Newman, Richard Pearson, Paul Portney, Janet Ranganathan, Lois Schiffer, Steven Sgambati, Jeanne Stahl, Dave Stangis, John Stowell, Helen Taylor, Robert Townsend, John Viera, Anne Wallin, and Kathrin Winkler