OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Our expert Board includes esteemed environmentalists, scientists, and leaders from around the world, all dedicated to protecting life and biodiversity.


David Baldock
Institute for European Environmental Policy


David Baldock

Dror Ben-Ami
Centre for Compassionate Conservation


Dror Ben-Ami

Hadas Dabas
Yale University


Hadas Dabas

Darrell Erb Jr.
Harmony Foundation of Canada


Darrell Erb Jr.

Deborah Goldberg
University of Michigan


Deborah Goldberg

Clive G. Jones
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies


Clive G. Jones

Josephine Kishapoi
Oikos East Africa


Josephine Kishapoi

Konstantinos Makris
Cyprus University of Technology


Konstantinos Makris

Wanjira Mathai
World Resources Institute (WRI)


Wanjira Mathai
Wanjira currently serves on the board of World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and is an advisory council member of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. Wanjira is one of a few Six Seconds EQ Practitioners in Kenya and was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Women in 2018 and 2020.

Guy Milhalter
Pearl Cohen


Guy Milhalter
Guy Milhalter is a partner in the Corporate Group in Pearl Cohen’s New York office.

Tom Murtha
Preventable Surprises


Tom Murtha

Kirsten Oates
Parlee McLaws LLP


Kirsten Oates

Jack Platt


Jack Platt
Jack M. Platt, CPA, is a trustee of Friends of the Arava Institute and a longtime supporter of environmental causes.

Tauni Sauvage
Executive Director at TiME


Tauni Sauvage

Uri Shanas
CEO and founder of TiME


Uri Shanas

Ondine Sherman
Voiceless, the animal protection institute


Ondine Sherman
Ondine Sherman is the co-founder and managing director of Voiceless, the animal protection institute.
She is the author of Vegan Living: A simple guide to a cruelty-free, healthy, plant-based life (2020) and the YA fiction series, the Animal Allies, with Pantera Press: Sky, Snow and Star.
Ondine is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney, exploring the human-animal relationship. She holds a BA in Communications and an MA in Environmental Studies from Macquarie University.
She is a director of several NGOs, including TiME, Society for Compassionate Conservation, the MCT8-AHDS Foundation and the Sherman Foundation.