Our Advisors

The Institute is honored to draw from the experience and wisdom of advisors who contribute to our work from across the globe, through academics, science, entrepreneurship, investment, and activism. This is a partial list of active participants.

Paul Alivisatos, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Carl Anthony, Breakthrough Communities

Sara Boettiger, President, PIPRA Foundation and Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University.

Harrison Fraker, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, former Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

J. Keith Gilless, Dean, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute

Henry Izumizaki, The Russell Family Foundation and Threshold Group

Daniel Kammen, Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, The World Bank

Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, Green Biz Group

Manuel Maqueda, Founder, Plastic Pollution Coalition

Richard Norgaard, Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley

Crespin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, South Africa

Bruce Pickering, Executive Director, Asia Society, Northern California

Kavita N. Ramdas, former CEO of the Global Fund for Women, Executive Director for Program on Social Entrepreneurship, Stanford University

Vincent Siciliano, President, New Resource Bank

Jasminka Sohinger, Professor of European Studies, University of Zagreb

Woody Tasch, Chairman, Slow Money Alliance

John Wilbanks, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Jane Zhang, President of Silk Wings Aviation, Beijing; Board member, Pacific Environment