Our Board
Joseph H. Highland, Ph.D.
Dr. Highland is also a strategic advisor to Plane Tree Capital (UK) and a member of its Carbon Assets Fund II advisory board; a Consulting Principal at the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG); a strategic advisor and member of the Board of Aprecia, an innovative drug delivery firm; a member of the National EnvironMentors Advisory Board; a founding partner of Energy Capital Ventures, a venture capital initiative focused on alternative energy investments and a member of the Board of Carbonfund.org., the National Counsel for Science and the Environment and Princeton Friends School. He was formerly a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University.
Eric Carlson
Lesley and Eric have two beautiful young daughters and want to pass on to them a cleaner world.
Paul Rowland
Paul Rowland is the senior resident director for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Indonesia. Since arriving in Jakarta in 2003, he has overseen an extensive portfolio of programs to strengthen legislatures, develop political parties and broaden citizen participation. In 2004, he managed the Institute's election processes program and witnessed Indonesia's landmark elections, including the world's largest-ever direct presidential poll.Before moving to Indonesia, Mr. Rowland directed NDI's Serbia program from the Institute's Belgrade office where he trained civil society and political party activists preceding the fall of the Milosevic regime, and later worked to strengthen government institutions with a new reform administration that came to power in 2000. While resident in the region, he also trained democratic activists in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary and Montenegro.
Immediately before joining NDI in 1997, Mr. Rowland was building a practice as communications consultant with private and public sector clients including the government of British Columbia in his native Canada where his professional political experience dates to 1984. As a field organizer, he worked for the New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP) in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory. During a 12-year period, Mr. Rowland managed numerous federal and provincial-level campaigns across Canada on behalf of the NDP. Also during this period with the NDP, he acted as a fundraiser, membership recruiter, convention coordinator and candidate.
In addition, Mr. Rowland spent several years working on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, first as a legislative assistant and later as a chief of staff to federal members of parliament where he managed legislative strategy, constituency relations, research projects and external communications. Mr. Rowland lives with his family in Jakarta.
L. Hunter Lovins
Trained as a sociologist and lawyer (JD), Hunter co-founded the California Conservation Project (Tree People), and Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. She has consulted with large and small companies including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, Clif Bar and Wal-Mart. Governmental clients include the Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and other agencies, numerous cities, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and the U.S. She also serves an advisor to the Energy Minister of the Government of Afghanistan.
Recipient of such honors as the Right Livelihood Award, Lindbergh Award and Leadership in Business, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet. She has co-authored nine books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism and 2006 Climate Protection Manual for Cities. She has served on the boards of governments, non and for profit companies.
Hunter's areas of expertise include Natural Capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, and fire rescue and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She is currently a founding Professor of Business at Presidio School of Management, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in Sustainable Management.
Mark Rees
Mark is an extremely accomplished international trade lawyer who brings an important international law perspective to our ever-growing work overseas, as well as other legal matters that come before the Board.He is an attorney-advisor in the Office of the General Counsel of the United States International Trade Commission in Washington, DC, an independent, bipartisan, quasi-judicial agency with broad investigative powers relating to international trade. His practice includes advising the Commission during trade investigations and, under the agency's independent litigation authority, defending its decisions on appeal.
Prior to joining the Commission in 2001, Mr. Rees was a partner at the law firm of Smith & Duggan LLP in Boston, MA, where his practice included co-directing the firm's international law practice.
Mr. Rees received his LL.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) in 1999 from Columbia Law School, his J.D. in 1988 from Northeastern Law School, and his B.A. in 1985 from Bates College. He clerked for the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1988 to 1990 before joining Smith & Duggan in 1990.
Mr. Rees has published in the areas of international law and international dispute resolution, and has served as an officer (chair, vice-chair, and senior advisor) of the International Courts Committee of the American Bar Association.
