Thursday, 01 January 2004
FSC-US Appoints Two New Board Members
The FSC-US Board of Directors are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Rafe Pomerance and Jack Vanderryn to the FSC-US Board under the bylaws adopted in June 2002, which allow for the appointment of up to six Directors to the current elected Directors. Mr. Pomerance and Mr. Vanderryn will each serve a three-year term.
Roger Dower, FSC-US President, said that, “FSC-US is truly fortunate to have the talents and experience of Rafe and Jack added to our Board leadership. They are exceptional individuals that complement the strengths of our elected Board members. I very much look forward to working with them over the next three years.” Paul Harlan, Chairman of FSC-US, remarks that, “Rafe and Jack bring a set of skills to the FSC-US Board that will play a central role in helping us implement our strategic plan in the coming years.”
Rafe Pomerance, who was appointed to the environmental chamber, is currently Chairman of the Climate Policy Center, a nonprofit focusing on equitable and efficient policies to lower greenhouse gas emissions. From 1993-1999 Pomerance was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and Development. In this position he was responsible for developing and implementing US diplomatic policy on a range of issues, including: forests, climate change, ozone depletion, and coral reefs. Prior to joining the State Department Pomerance spent eight years as a senior associate at the World Resources Institute focusing on policy responses to global warming and ozone depletion. From 1980-1984 Pomerance served as President of Friends of the Earth. During the previous five years he was on the FOE legislative staff including two years as legislative director. He has also served as Chairman of the League of Conservation Voters and was a founder and the first coordinator or the National Clean Air Coalition, and American Rivers.
Jack Vanderryn, who was appointed to the social chamber, was Program Officer for Environment of The Moriah Fund, a family foundation in Washington, DC from 1991 to 2003, when he became Senior Fellow for Environment and Development at the foundation. He continues to manage Moriah’s development portfolio that addresses both reform of the multilateral international financial institutions as well as international trade and globalization issues. In this capacity Jack works closely with FSC-US and many of our partner organizations.
For the period 1997-2000, Jack served as President of the Consultative Group on Biodiversity (CGBD), an organization of more than 45 foundations working in concert to conserve biodiversity. He was Chairman of the Board of the Renewable Energy and Efficiency Training Institute, in Washington, DC and presently serves on the boards of the Endangered Species Coalition and the Institute for Conservation Leadership; he previously served on the board of the Center for the Support of Native Lands.
Vanderryn’s experience includes thirty-three years with the US Government, mostly in senior management positions with the US Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies, and ten years with the US Agency for International Development, in charge of worldwide energy and environmental assistance programs to developing countries. It was while he was at USAID that he helped establish the Consultative Group on Biodiversity.