UCS Board Members
Kurt Gottfried (Chair) is emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University. A co-founder of UCS, he has served on the senior staff of the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, is a former chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published widely on theoretical physics and national security issues, authoring Quantum Mechanics and Concepts of Particle Physics, and The Fallacy of Star Wars and Crisis Stability and Nuclear War.
Peter A. Bradford (Vice-Chair) advises and teaches on utility regulation and energy policy in the United States and overseas. A former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the New York and Maine utility commissions, he has advised many states on utility restructuring issues. He has taught energy law and policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Vermont Law School. He served on a panel advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants. He was also part of an expert panel advising the Austrian Institute for Risk Reduction on issues associated with the opening of the Mochovche nuclear power plant in Slovakia. He is the author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine.
Thomas Eisner is Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology. A leading biologist who received the National Medal of Science in 1994, he is an active conservationist, both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. He recently served as chair of the Endangered Species Coalition and was formerly a member of the National Audubon Society's board and the Nature Conservancy's scientific council. He is the author of For Love of Insects and is a well-known nature photographer.
James A. Fay (Board Member Emeritus) is professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A UCS board member since 1978, Dr. Fay is former chair of the Massachusetts Port Authority, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His published works on the environmental impact of energy technologies include (with Dan Golomb) Energy and the Environment.
Richard L. Garwin is a National Medal of Science laureate and Fellow Emeritus at IBM. He has done a wide range of research in fundamental and applied physics. He was involved with the development of the first thermonuclear weapons and the first photo-intelligence satellites and is a leading expert on many arms control matters. He has served on the President's Scientific Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. He also was Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council of Foreign Relations. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. His most recent book (with Georges Charpak) is Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons.
Andrew Gunther (Representative of the National Advisory Board) is executive director of the Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration and a founding partner of Applied Marine Sciences, Inc. He has published research in the field of ecotoxicology and has extensive experience in applying science to the development of air, water, and endangered species policy. Dr. Gunther also served as the assistant chief scientist for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Program from 1991 to 2002.
Geoffrey Heal is Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility at at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he was previously Senior Vice Dean. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board. His 16 books include Nature and the Marketplace and Valuing the Future. He is also a Director of Petromin Holdings PNG Ltd. and chairs the Advisory Board of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.
James S. Hoyte (Treasurer) is the Assistant to the President/Associate Vice President for Equal Opportunity Programs, Lecturer in Environmental Sciences and Public Policy at Harvard College, and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a member of the University Committee on Environment at Harvard. Mr. Hoyte is a lawyer who has served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts and as Chair of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
Anne R. Kapuscinski is Professor of Fisheries and Conservation Biology and Director of the Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kapuscinski serves on a variety of national and international committees addressing sustainable aquaculture and the environmental safety of genetically engineered organisms. She is the recipient of a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Honor Award for Environmental Protection.
James J. McCarthy is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard University and president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. McCarthy serves on many panels and commissions relating to oceanography, polar science, and the study of climate and global change. He chaired the committee that oversees the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program, and served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II.
Edward L. Miles is the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs at the University of Washington. He holds joint appointments in the School of Maine Affairs of the College of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences and the Evans School of Public Affairs. He is also a Senior Fellow in JISAO where he serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Science in the Earth System and leader of the Climate Impacts Group. Dr. Miles has been a participant in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1994. In 2003 he was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and in 2005 he was elected to the rank of Fellow of AAAS. Dr. Miles' fields of specialization are international science and technology policy, marine policy and ocean management, and the impacts of climate variability and change at global and regional scales.
Mario J. Molina is Professor at the University of California–San Diego and President of the Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy and the Environment. He has served on the U.S. President's Committee of Advisors in Science and Technology, and is a member of the U.S. Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Molina and two colleagues shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their research on the depletion of stratospheric ozone.
Stuart L. Pimm is Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University. His work focuses on conservation biology and the protection of biodiversity. He is a Pew scholar and the author of The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities. Dr. Pimm was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences in 2006.
Adele Simmons is vice chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020, a regional planning group, and co-chair of the task force preparing Chicago's Climate Action Plan. She serves on the boards of Marsh & McLennan Companies, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Field Museum. Mrs. Simmons was president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and president of Hampshire College. She has also served on the president's Commission on Environmental Quality and the Commission on Global Governance.
Nancy Stephens is an actress and political activist. A California gubernatorial appointee to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Advisory Board, Ms. Stephens also serves on the executive board of the Earth Communications Office and the advisory board of the Liberty Hill Foundation. She is a longtime member of the Environmental Leadership Forum of the California League of Conservation Voters and also serves as president of the Rosenthal Family Foundation.
Louis Salkind serves on the Executive Committee of D.E. Shaw & Co., a global investment and technology firm. Dr. Salkind received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1978, where he studied mathematics and physics, and his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute in 1990, where he studied computer science and robotics. He is a recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award and the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Salkind is also President of Bright Horizon Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on sustainability, global security, and education.
Thomas H. Stone (Secretary) is Chair and CEO of Stone Capital Group, Inc, a family investment company. He devotes significant time to nonprofit organizations that work on global environmental problems, with young people in underserved communities, with the disabled, and with music organizations. Mr. Stone is an arbitrator for FINRA Dispute Resolution and the National Futures Association. He teaches disabled skiers and also serves on the boards of the Ravinia Festival Association and the Merit School of Music.
Ellyn R. Weiss is an artist, a retired partner in the law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot, and former general counsel to UCS. Ms. Weiss has also served as assistant attorney general for environmental protection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, special counsel and director of the Secretary of Energy's Human Radiation Experiments Initiative, and deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Environment, Safety, and Health within the U.S. Department of Energy.
