Blacksmith Board of Directors 

Richard Fuller 

President, Blacksmith Institute

Born in Australia, Richard Fuller graduated with a degree in Engineering from Melbourne University and then worked for IBM. He left Australia in 1988 to work directly on global environmental issues. For two years, Mr. Fuller worked in the rainforests of Brazil with the United Nations Environmental Programme, creating forest reserves that promote the preservation of both the rainforest and its inhabitants. He then headed to New York, where he established Great Forest Inc., now one of the most successful sustainability consulting companies in the U.S. Great Forest was one of the first to bring sustainability practices to the business world, helping to pave the way for the rise of corporate social responsibility. Mr. Fuller founded the not-for-profit Blacksmith Institute in 1999.

On a global scale, Mr. Fuller believes that pollution is still one of the most serious problems the earth faces, and developing countries bear the brunt of it. Up until now, very little support has been given to local institutions to solve these problems in their communities-a crucial gap Blacksmith is filling. Behind Mr. Fuller's driving determination is the know-how to solve these problems and save lives at risk. Working with scientists, public health experts, environmental engineers, academics and other experts from local and governmental agencies, Mr. Fuller has assembled a comprehensive database of knowledge and information that is being used by Blacksmith's network of project managers around the world to clean up the worst polluted sites efficiently and effectively.

Ethan Devine

Partner, Indus Capital Partners

Joshua Ginsberg

Senior Vice President, Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society

Joshua Ginsberg was born and raised in New York and is currently the Senior Vice President, Global Conservation Program, at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).  At WCS, Dr. Ginsberg has servied as the Vice President for Conservation Operations (2004-2009), as Director of the Asia and Pacific Program (1996 -2004), and as Acting Director of the WCS Africa Program for ten months in 2002.  He received a B. Sc. from Yale, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton in Ecology and Evolution. Dr. Ginsberg spent 17 years as a field biologist/conservationist working in Asia and Africa. He serves on the NOAA/NMFS Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Team and was Chair of the Team from 2001-2007.  Dr. Ginsberg has held faculty positions at Oxford University and University College London, and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches conservation biology and has supervised 16 Masters and four Ph. D. students.  He is an author of over 50 reviewed papers, and has edited three books on wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution.

Sheldon Kasowitz 

Managing Partner, Indus Capital Partners
Sheldon Kasowitz is a Managing Partner and co-Founder of Indus Capital Partners, a $5bn alternative asset manager focused on the Asia Pacific region.  Prior to forming Indus in 2000, Sheldon was a partner at Soros Fund Management and has also worked at Jardine Fleming in Asia and Goldman Sachs in New York.  He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut as well as an MBA from Columbia University, and sits on the boards of the Blacksmith Institute and The University of Connecticut Foundation.  He and his wife, Samantha’s, charitable interests focus on children, the environment and education.

Andrew Korner

Chief Executive, Asian Capital Partners Group

Mr Korner is chief executive of Asian Capital Partners Group, a Hong Kong-regulated investment banking firm operating regionally in Asia. He served previously as head of Credit Suisse First Boston's operations in Japan & North Asia and of Merrill Lynch's Asian investment banking division. He has also served on the Boards of The Bangkok Fund, China Securities Investment Trust Co., Indonesia Capital Fund, Merrill Lynch International Capital Management, Thai Venture Capital Corporation and Vietnam Enterprise Investments and on the Conference Board's Research Council on Global Investment. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc 

Professor and Chairman, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine 
Professor of Pediatrics 
Director, Children's Environmental Health Center 
Mount Sinai School of Medicine 

Philip Landrigan is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and international leader in public health and preventive medicine. After graduating from Harvard Medical School and completing his residency in pediatrics at Boston Children.s Hospital, Dr. Landrigan served for 15 years as an epidemic intelligence service officer and medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He has been a member of the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 1985 and chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine since 1990. He has been a leader in developing the National Children.s Study, the largest study of children.s health and the environment ever launched in the United States.

Dr. Landrigan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Industrial Medicine and previously was editor of Environmental Research. He chaired committees at the National Academy of Sciences that produced the reports Environmental Neurotoxicology and Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children. The report that he directed on pesticides and children's health was instrumental in securing passage of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, the major federal pesticide law in the United States. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Landrigan served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veteran.s Illnesses. In 1997 - 1998, Dr. Landrigan served as senior advisor on Children.s Health to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he was instrumental in helping to establish a new Office of Children.s Health Protection at the EPA.

Joshua Mailman 

President, Sirius Business Corporation
Joshua Mailman is one of the founding trustees of the Rausing Trust. He is also a trustee of the Mailman Foundation, in New York and an advisor to the Pema Fund, in San Francisco. He has played an instrumental role in the founding of numerous organizations focused on business and social responsibility, including Social Venture Network (1987), Business for Social Responsibility (1992) and Social Venture Network Europe(1993). He is also the founder of the Threshold Foundation (1981) and a cofounder of the Network for Social Change U.K. (1983). He currently serves on the boards of Afropop Worldwide, Business for Social Responsibility, Fund for Global Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Sierra Madre Alliance and Witness. He is also a co-founder of Grameen Telecom, the largest cellular operator in Bangladesh and the only phone company in the world one-third owned by a bank that represents the interests of the poor. (The above information was taken from the Sigrid Rausing Trust website).

Conrad Meyer

During a 25 year career on Wall Street, Conrad was a founding member of Lehman Brothers' Mergers and Acquisitions Department and went on to run the global M&A new business development efforts of Morgan Stanley and Gleacher Partners. In retirement, Conrad has been involved with a variety of not-for profit institutions and is currently an active member of the board of the American Red Cross in Greater New York. Conrad holds an undergraduate degree from Trinity College and an MBA from The Harvard Business School.

Ronald H. Reede 

Managing Director, Equity Sales, Lazard Capital Markets
Ron Reede is a managing director at Lazard Capital Markets in the equity group. Originally from New York, he studied at Drew University and the Australian School of Management in Sydney, before receiving his MBA from New York University.  Mr. Reede has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2003.