President/ former Executive Director of Endangered Species Coalition
Washington D.C. Metro Area
President/ former Executive Director of Endangered Species Coalition
Washington D.C. Metro Area
(Environmental Services industry)
1999 — Present (10 years)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
February 1997 — Present (12 years 6 months)
(As Executive Director) Responsible for supervision of up to 10 employees, raising funds (up to $4-500,000 annually), developing strategies and tactics, lobbying, working with and motivating Board members and fellow environmenalists to do all possible to protect American plants, inveterbrates, fishes, and mammals, pus the Endangered Species Act itself, from extinction via political, economic, and/or loss of habitat forces.
(As President) all of the above except the direct management and meeting-of-payroll responsibilities. We now have and extremely competent Executive Director, Ms. Leda Huta, with whom I work closely, to accomplish those goals.
(Environmental Services industry)
June 1981 — December 1995 (14 years 7 months)
Responsible for organization's strategy, tactics, hiring and fundraising around Public Lands Issues, especially protection of ancient forests and other key wilderness and habitats.
B.A.. , History (cum laude) , 1955 — 1959
I also attended the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, and graduated with an LL.B., 1963.
Was Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (Institute of Politics), where I taught a course on the Politics of Environmental Protection. (1990)
Was Visiting Professor at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (Israel, 1998), and there taught courses on Comparative International Environmental Law; and The Politics of Nature Protection -- to a mixed student body of Arabs from Palestine and neighboring countries, and Orthodox and secular Jews from Israel, Europe, and North America. (all classes and exams in English!)