US Board of Directors
William Moomaw, President
William Moomaw is Professor of International Environmental Policy at Tufts University, and Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. His teaching and research focus on issues such as quantitative indicators of environment and development; sustainable development; trade and environment; technology and policy implications for climate change; water and climate change; biodiversity; and negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.
In addition to his roles at Tufts, Bill is Senior Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute; Co-Director, Public Disputes Program, Program on Negotiations; Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2001; Board of Directors, Consensus Building Institute; Science Advisory Committee, Earthwatch; and Lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2003.
Bill earned his BA from Williams College and PhD in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Paul Dolan
A fourth generation winemaker who has dedicated his 35-year career to green issues, Paul Dolan is known for his leadership in sustainable agriculture. A compassionate executive and winegrower holding degrees in business (Santa Clara University) and enology (California State University Fresno), Paul’s influence within the wine industry is strong.
Through vehicles such as the Wine Institute’s Code of Sustainable Wine Growing, speeches on climate change and citations for exemplary green practices, he has motivated other growers to adopt practices that respect the land. His book, True to Our Roots, Fermenting a Business Revolution (2003), makes the convincing case that sustainability in not only good for the earth; it is an economic advantage.
Paul has become a passionate advocate of Biodynamic® viticulture and winemaking, believing that each piece of land has a personality, a unique expression. He and his sons farm their 70-acre Dark Horse ranch biodynamically. “My sons and I have embraced biodynamics so that we can expand what agriculture means for us and our families,” says Paul.
Paul Dolan, together with Tom and Tim Thornhill, owns Mendocino Wine Company, producers of Parducci and Paul Dolan Vineyard wines.
Steve Howard
Steve is the CEO of The °Climate Group which he co-founded in late 2003. He has worked on a variety of social and environmental issues from within business, NGO and UN settings. Whilst at The °Climate Group he has advised many world leading companies on climate change strategy and has chaired meetings with business and government leaders including the Long Beach meeting of business leaders with Governor Schwarzenegger and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Jeff Swartz
Chairman of the Board
Jeff is the third generation of the Swartz family to lead Timberland. His grandfather Nathan started the predecessor company to Timberland in 1952. Jeff’s father Sidney and his uncle Herman launched the Timberland brand in the early 1970s. Jeff was promoted to President and CEO in 1998, after working in virtually every functional area of the company since 1986. Under Jeff’s leadership, Timberland has grown rapidly, from $156 million in 1989 to $1.6 billion in 2006. Timberland today competes in countries around the world, designing, manufacturing and marketing footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and children.
Since Fortune magazine began publishing the index, Timberland has consistently been one of the 100 Best Companies To Work For in America and one of the Best Places to Work by Working Mother magazine. They have been listed on Business Ethics list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens and in 2002, Timberland received the Ron Brown Award, a Presidential award recognizing outstanding corporate leadership in social responsibility.
Jeff is one of 19 founding CEOs selected for President Bush’s task force on national service called Business Strengthening America. He is on the board of directors for Share Our Strength, Honest Tea, City Year, the Harlem Children’s Zone and Limited Brands, Inc. In addition, Jeff is a member of the World Economic Forum and the Two/Ten Foundation, an organization providing charitable funds and services to individuals in the footwear industry. In 2002, he received the Two/Ten Foundation’s T. Kenyon Holly Memorial Award for Humanitarian Achievement.
Jeff received an MBA from Dartmouth in 1984, and a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown in 1982.
Chris Walker
Chris is the North America Director of The °Climate Group. Prior to joining The °Climate Group, Chris was Head of Swiss Re’s Sustainability Business Development.
An attorney, Chris was appointed to the California Climate Change Advisory Commission and is a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), on the board of advisors for New Energy Finance publication, the Panama Canal Watershed Business Plan project at Yale University and the Climate Change Futures Study with Harvard University/ UNDP.
Chris received his BA in Government from St. John’s University, attended the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown and is also a graduate of the St. John’s School of Law. Prior to joining Swiss Re in 1996, he practiced law in New York and New Jersey.