The CENTER for SCIENCE in PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

DON BACHMAN, Bozeman, Montana – Board Secretary/Treasurer

Mr. Bachman is a mostly retired consultant working with public land use policy and mining issue organizing and advocacy.  Career-wise he specialized in snow safety policy and related matters including avalanche forecasting and control and incident investigation.   Don majored in forestry at Oregon State and Colorado State Universities.  He is a past Board Member of the Montana Environmental Information Center, Helena, MT;  Madison-Gallatin Alliance (Montana Wilderness Association) and the Western Organization of Resource Councils and founding Board Member of the Colorado Open Space Council, High Country Citizens Alliance, and Western Colorado Congress.  Don is currently President of the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies in Silverton Colorado.  He is a member of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Northern Plains Resource Council, among several environmental groups.

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HANK CAULEY, Falls Church, Virginia

Hank brings a wealth of experience in developing and implementing sustainable business models, having spent six years as a management consultant for Telesis Inc where he led strategic planning teams for large US corporations such as Corning, General Electric and Rubbermaid.  Hank's leadership experience includes roles in a variety of NGOs operating in the US, Africa and across the Asian and Pacific regions from India to the Solomon Islands.  These roles included: US President of the Forest Stewardship Council; Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Biodiversity Conservation Network; and Country Director for VITA in Somalia, where he was responsible for establishing a nationwide conservation program in major cities and 35 refugee camps.

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ANNA CEDERSTAV, Oakland, California

Anna Cederstav is Program Director with the Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA, the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense), a legal advocacy group that works via collaborative efforts in many nations to promote the ability of citizens to protect their health and environment through development and enforcement of environmental law. She is based with the International Program of Earthjustice in the United States, and works closely with non-profit environmental law groups in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico and Canada. AIDA's projects focus on addressing environmental problems that are international in cause or effect. Anna holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. from Yale University. She has a varied background in environmental policy, chemistry, and engineering.

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MIKE CLARK, Bozeman, Montana

Mike Clark is the former executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, the region's largest environmental organization. Mike has over 30 years of experience working with social movements in the United States, including civil rights, anti-poverty, health, and the environment. He has served as chief executive of several regional and national nonprofit organizations, including: president of Friends of the Earth-US, president of the Environmental Policy Institute (both in Washington, D.C.), founding executive director of Northern Lights Institute in the northern Rockies, and president of the Highlander Center in Appalachia. He has served on the boards of over 20 non-profit organizations. Mike Clark is the executive director of Yellowstone Heritage, a new organization working to preserve wildlife habitat and working landscapes on private lands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which includes parts of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.  He is the former executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, the region's largest environmental organization. 

Mike worked for many years on problems caused by coal mining in Appalachia while working for Highlander Center, and while at Environmental Policy Institute and Friends of the Earth oversaw a project that monitored the implementation of federal laws on coal mining.  While at GYC, he helped to negotiate the buy-out of the New World Mine, a proposed gold mine just outside the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park.

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STEVE D’ESPOSITO, Washington, D.C. – Board Chair

Mr. D’Esposito is the President of the Mineral Policy Center, Washington, D.C.  Before becoming President in January 1998, Steve served as MPC's Vice-President for Policy from February to December 1997.  In this role, he directed MPC's program staff and designed campaigns focusing on legislative and regulatory initiatives.  Before joining MPC, Steve was instrumental in building Greenpeace USA into one of the largest environmental groups in the country, from 1986 through 1992.  From 1993 through early 1996, Steve served as Deputy Director and the Executive Director of Greenpeace International in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Prior to his work with Greenpeace, Steve was Field Director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.  Steve received a bachelor's degree in political science from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1983.

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GLENN C. MILLER, Reno, Nevada 

Glenn C. Miller is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Resource Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Science and Health.  He received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Chemistry at the University of California, Davis in 1977, after earning a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Since joining the faculty at UNR in 1978, he has taught a variety of courses in environmental chemistry, toxicology and general environmental studies.  His research interests have focused on the environmental fate of chemicals released into the environment.  He has authored or co-authored over 70 publications.

Glenn is active in the Sierra Club and serves on the Board of Directors of the Mineral Policy Center and the Tahoe/Baikal Institute.  He is also one of the organizers of Great Basin Mine Watch.  

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GAVIN MURRAY, Sydney, Australia

Gavin Murray is currently Director, Institutional & Corporate Sustainability at Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group Limited in Sydney Australia.  He was formerly the Director for Environment and Social Development at the International Finance Corporation (the private sector arm of the World Bank Group) based in Washington DC.  Prior to this role, he was Vice-President, Sustainability Leadership for Placer Dome Inc. (a multi-national mining company) based in Vancouver Canada.  Gavin received the Dr Adrian Smith International Environmental Mining Award in 2004 for his global leadership in pursuing new approaches to solving complex environmental and social issues in the mining industry.  Gavin has an agricultural background and now pursues responsible development through the alignment of successful business outcomes with evolving societal expectations.

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MICHAEL L. ROSS, Los Angeles, California

Michael L. Ross is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Chairman of UCLA’s International Development Studies program.  He has published widely on democratization, civil war, and natural resources, and has a special interest in the countries of Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.  His book “Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia” was published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press.  He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Politics from Princeton University, and his B.A. degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

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ALAN YOUNG, Ottawa, Ontario

Mr. Young has been working on conservation issues for native and environmental organizations for 14 years.  He served for 7 years as Executive Director of the Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia and has been working on mining environmental policy and practices at the international, federal and provincial level.  Other related positions held include Chair of Mining Watch Canada, Member of the Mineral Policy Research Initiative Advisory Committee for the International Development Research Center, and Research Associate with the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.

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