Board of Directors
Our board provides expertise in fundraising, program development, and strategic guidance.
F. William (Bill) Green, M.D., Chairperson
Dr. Green is coordinator of the Subcommittee on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Design for Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area. Since leaving his practice of gastroenterology and hepatology at University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, much of his time has been directed at promoting sustainability with respect to natural resources. He and his wife spend several months a year in volunteer capacities in Guatemala. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Bowdoin College and an M.D. from Boston University and continues to work toward Spanish proficiency.
Nicholas A. (Nick) Shufro, Vice Chair & Treasurer
Mr. Shufro works in the Sustainability, Washington Federal, and Governance Risk Compliance practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to joining PwC, he worked for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, United Technologies Corporation, and the US-Asia Environmental Partnership. He has more than 20 years of experience in management and performance reporting for the energy, financial, and environmental health and safety sectors. Mr. Shufro sits on the boards of several nonprofits, including Boundless Playgrounds, the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, Calm Air Visibility Unlimited, and the Executive Committee of White Water to Blue Water. He holds a Master's of Environmental Management from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an M.B.A. from New York University.
Shaun Paul, President and Executive Director of EcoLogic Development Fund
Mr. Paul co-founded EcoLogic in 1993 and currently serves as its executive director. Mr. Paul has extensive experience in rural Latin American economic development, environmental protection, and natural resource management. Prior to launching EcoLogic, he served as a field representative for social service organizations working in Central America. Mr. Paul has also held positions with the United Nations Non-Governmental Organization Liaison Service, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Inter-American Foundation. He has an M.A. in natural resource and development economics from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in international relations from American University. He is fluent in Spanish and was designated a Next Generation Leader Fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2001.
Winstead (Ted) Rouse, Secretary
Mr. Rouse serves as the partner in charge of residential development for Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Inc. For more than 22 years, he has specialized in urban regeneration and, today, oversees a range of public and private sector projects on large-scale urban development including the construction and development of more than 1,000 homes and apartments each year for both the low-income and luxury markets. Mr. Rouse is the chairman of the board of the American Visionary Art Museum, a board member and co-chair of the Waterfront Promenade Committee for the Living Classrooms Foundation, and board Member and vice president of the Jim & Patty Rouse Charitable Foundation. He also serves on the boards of the American Bird Conservancy and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Louise Bowditch
Louise Bowditch is the director of Seed Haiti and a trustee of the Blossom Fund. She has been an activist for two thirds of her life, and a donor for the last twenty years. Trained as a lawyer, Ms. Bowditch's work focused primarily on Central America and Haiti. Along with leaders of the Haitian organized peasant movement, she started Seed Haiti in 1998, an organization which supports cooperative, sustainable, economic development in rural Haiti. Ms. Bowditch retired in 2005 and spends much of her time tending olive trees on a small farm in Abruzzo, Italy.
David Bray, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University
Mr. Bray is a recipient of the Fulbright Senior Fellow Teaching Award for Mexico. He is the author of Timber, Tourists and Temples: Conservation and Development in the Maya Forest of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize and various articles. Mr. Bray has both a Ph.D. and a M.A. in cultural anthropology from Brown University, as well as a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
David Crocker, First Vice President-Investments, Smith Barney
Mr. Crocker is a financial consultant with a particular interest and specialization in socially responsible investing. In the 1970s, Mr. Crocker pioneered the idea of community funds, wherein individuals with inherited wealth pool their resources and work with community leaders to fund programs in the environment, social justice, women's rights, disarmament, and peace. Today, the network of community funds he co-founded serves 26 states and has developed into one of the largest sources of funds for cutting-edge community organizing in the United States. Mr. Crocker is a founding board member of Green Seal, Inc., a national organization currently working to develop environmental standards and a seal of Environmentally Approved Labeling for consumer products. He is also a member of the Social Investment Forum, the Social Venture Network, Businesses for Social Responsibility, the National Network of Grantmakers, and the Donor Organizers Network.
Lisa Leff, Vice President and Portfolio Manager, Trillium Asset Management
Ms. Leff is the manager of Trillium's Boise, Idaho, office, where she manages equity, balanced, and fixed income accounts for individual and institutional clients seeking solid competitive returns while also promoting social and economic justice. Before joining Trillium in 1999, Ms. Leff worked at the Social Awareness Investment program at Smith Barney Asset Management in Manhattan. While in New York, she also founded the Social Investment Security Analysts group and served on the board of directors of the Social Investment Forum. More recently, she has served on the boards of the Idaho Conservation League, the Fund for Idaho, and Ten Thousand Villages, Boise. Ms. Leff was named Idaho's Progressive Businessperson of the Year for 2004. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Gert Rosenthal
His Excellency Gert Rosenthal is the minister of foreign relations for the Republic of Guatemala. He previously served as a Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations. He has extensive experience in Guatemalan politics as a member of the Oversight Commission of the Guatemalan Peace Accords, Executive Secretary of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean with the rank of Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, and Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. He received both his bachelor's and his master's degrees in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Marcela O. de Rovzar, Advisor, Procura, Mexico
Ms. Rovzar founded Procura A.C., a fundraising and institutional strengthening institute for nonprofit organizations in Mexico, in 1994. She serves on a variety of boards and is a representative in Latin America for the Resource Alliance of the United Kingdom, the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communications, and the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy's Fundraising School. She serves on the civil society advisory council to the Inter-American Development Bank. Her prior positions include development director, board member, and vice-president for the Mexican Rural Foundation. Ms. Rovzar studied Architecture at the Iberoamericana University, and holds a degree in Fundraising Management for NonProfit Organizations from Indiana University's Center of Philanthropy and Social Responsibility and from the Science Institute of Navarra University. She is fluent in Spanish and English.
Dan Tunstall
Dan Tunstall is a director of Bilateral and Multilateral Relations at the World Resources Institute (WRI). His principal interests are in the area of environment and development indicators, state of environmental reporting, ecosystem assessments, and information policy. Mr. Tunstall is also acting director for International Cooperation within Development Department. From 1970-75, he worked for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget where he developed the first federal government set of social indicators. From 1976-81 he served on the President's Council on Environmental Quality during which time he developed its initial report on environmental conditions and trends. He was also Manager of Information Sources and Product Planning for Mead Data Central and has been a consultant for a number of government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations. Mr. Tunstall graduated from Northwestern University in 1963 with a degree in biology and received a master's degree in international relations and economics from Columbia University in 1968. He also served for two years in the Peace Corps in Melaka, Malaysia, from 1964-66.
William Russell Grace Byers, Jr., Chairman Emeritus
Mr. Byers is co-founder and chairman emeritus of EcoLogic Development Fund. Formerly an equity analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in New York, Mr. Byers is now a private investor living and working in New York City. He is a member of board of the R.K. Mellon Family Foundation. Mr. Byers has been active in support of social, environmental, and arts-related causes for many years. Mr. Byers recently is also a member of the Trustees Council of the National Gallery of Art. He holds a B.A. in english from Skidmore College. He is a member of the Social Venture Network.
