Board
UCS Board Members
Kurt Gottfried (Chair) is emeritus professor of physics at Cornell University. A co-founder of UCS, he has served on the senior staff of the European Center for Nuclear Research in Geneva, is a former chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published widely on theoretical sciences and national security issues, authoring Quantum Mechanics and Concepts of Particle Physics, and The Fallacy of Star Wars and Crisis Stability and Nuclear War.
Peter A. Bradford (Vice-Chair) advises and teaches on utility regulation and energy policy in the United States and overseas. A former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and former chair of the New York and Maine utility commissions, he has advised many states on utility restructuring issues. He has taught energy law and policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Vermont Law School. He served on a panel advising the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants. He was also part of an expert panel advising the Austrian Institute for Risk Reduction on issues associated with the opening of the Mochovche nuclear power plant in Slovakia. He is the author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine.
Thomas Eisner is Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Institute for Research in Chemical Ecology. A leading biologist who received the National Medal of Science in 1994, he is an active conservationist, both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society. He recently served as chair of the Endangered Species Coalition and was formerly a member of the National Audubon Society's board and the Nature Conservancy's scientific council. He is the author of For Love of Insects and is a well-known nature photographer.
James A. Fay (board member emeritus) is professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A UCS board member since 1978, Dr. Fay is former chair of the Massachusetts Port Authority, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has published extensively on the environmental effects of energy technologies, including Energy and the Environment.
Richard L. Garwin is a National Medal of Science laureate and Fellow Emeritus at IBM. He has done a wide range of research in fundamental and applied physics. He was involved with the development of the first thermonuclear weapons and the first photo-intelligence satellites and is a leading expert on many arms control matters. He has served on the President's Scientific Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. He also was Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council of Foreign Relations. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. His most recent book (with Georges Charpak) is Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons.
Andrew Gunther (representative of the National Advisory Board) is executive director of the Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration and a founding partner of Applied Marine Sciences, Inc. He has published research in the field of ecotoxicology and has extensive experience in applying science to the development of air, water, and endangered species policy. Dr. Gunther also served as the assistant chief scientist for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Program from 1994 to 2002.
Geoffrey M. Heal is Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility and professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he was previously Senior Vice Dean. Dr. Heal has taught at Yale, Stanford, and Princeton, as well as at Cambridge, Sussex, and Essex Universities in the UK. He was managing editor of the Review of Economic Studies, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and member of the Pew Oceans Commission. He has chaired the National Academy's committee on Valuing Ecosystem Services, and is currently a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board. He has published 13 books and 150 articles on economic theory and environmental economics. His latest books, Valuing the Future and Nature and the Marketplace, provide an economic framework for thinking about sustainability. Professor Heal also conducts research on national security issues.
James S. Hoyte (Treasurer) is the Assistant to the President and lecturer in the Environmental Sciences and Public Policy Program at Harvard University. He is also a member of the University Committee on Environment and co-program director of the Working Group on Environmental Justice at Harvard. Mr. Hoyte is a lawyer who has served as Secretary of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts and as Chair of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
Anne R. Kapuscinski is Professor of Fisheries and Conservation Biology and Director of the Institute for Social, Economic and Ecological Sustainability at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Kapuscinski currently serves on a variety of national and international committees. Nationally, she is a member of the Food Biotechnology Subcommittee of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Academy of Science's Committee on the Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms. Internationally, Dr. Kapuscinski is the sole biosafety advisor on the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the UNEP's Global Environmental Facility; she was also recently appointed to a CGIAR study panel on the biosafety of gene technology. Dr. Kapuscinski is the recipient of a Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship and the Department of Agriculture's Honor Award for Environmental Protection.
James J. McCarthy is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and from 1982 until 2002 he was the Director of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. Dr. McCarthy has served and serves on many national and international planning committees, advisory panels, and commissions relating to oceanography, polar science, and the study of climate and global change. From 1986 to 1993, he chaired the international committee that establishes research priorities and oversees implementation of the International Geosphere—Biosphere Program. He served as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II, which had responsibilities for assessing impacts of and vulnerabilities to global climate change for the Third IPCC Assessment.
Mario J. Molina is Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and has served on the US President's Committee of Advisors in Science and Technology, the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board, the National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and on the boards of the US-Mexico Foundation of Science. In 1995, Dr. Molina and two colleagues received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their prediction of the role of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in producing the ozone hole over Antarctica.
Stuart L. Pimm is Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University. Dr. Pimm's work focuses on conservation biology and the protection of biodiversity. He is a Pew scholar and is the author of The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities. Much of his research concerns the protection of endangered species in the Florida Everglades and global patterns of extinction.
Adele Simmons is a senior associate at the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago and vice chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020. She is a senior advisor to the World Economic Forum. Previously, Dr. Simmons was president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Earlier, she was a professor and dean at Princeton University and Tufts University and president of Hampshire College. She was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to his Commission on Environmental Quality and served on the Commission on Global Governance between 1992 and 1995.
Nancy Stephens is an actress and political activist. A California gubernatorial appointee to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Advisory Board, Ms. Stephens also serves on the executive board of the Earth Communications Office, the advisory board of Liberty Hill, and the board of Americans for a Safe Future. She is a longtime member of the Environmental Leadership Forum of the California League of Conservation Voters.
Thomas H. Stone is chair and CEO of Stone Capital Group, Inc., a family-owned investment company. He devotes significant time to not-for-profit organizations that work on global environmental problems, with young people in underserved communities, with the disabled, and with music organizations. Mr. Stone serves as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers and the National Futures Association. He also teaches skiing to disabled persons. In addition he serves on the boards of the Ravinia Festival Association and the Merit School of Music.
Ellyn R. Weiss is an artist and a retired partner in the law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot. General counsel to UCS from 1977 to 1988, Ms. Weiss served as assistant attorney general for environmental protection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was a partner in Harmon & Weiss, a public-interest law firm. From 1994 to 1995, she served as special counsel and director of the Secretary of Energy's Human Radiation Experiments Initiative and as deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Environment, Safety, and Health within the US Department of Energy. | 
