Jonathan Lash

Jonathan Lash serves as president of the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington D.C. and is a leading figure and influential voice in the US and international environmental community. Under his leadership, WRI’s research and policy analysis have provided innovative, practical solutions to global sustainability challenges, and Mr. Lash is a recognized expert on climate change, energy security, and environment and development policies. In 2005, he was named one of the world’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Finance in Treasury & Risk Management magazine, the only leader of a non-profit environmental organization to make the list. The same year Rolling Stone included him among “Twenty-five leaders who are fighting to stave off planet-wide catastrophe.” The article concluded that Mr. Lash “has arguably done more than any other environmentalist to bridge the bitter divide between industry interests and green groups determined to halt global warming.” A former co-chair of President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, Secretary of Natural Resources for the State of Vermont, Federal Prosecutor, law professor, and Peace Corps volunteer, Mr. Lash serves on the Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management.