WCS Trustees & Senior Management
Board of Trustees
“The world’s biodiversity is facing threats from all angles. Wilderness areas are vanishing and fauna and flora species are facing extinction like never before. The team at WCS is relentless in its efforts in this urgent fight to preserve nature for wildlife and humanity. I am honored to have been elected by the WCS trustees as Chair.”
Alejandro Santo Domingo, Chair
Board Officers
Alejandro Santo Domingo
Chair
Thomas J. Edelman
Treasurer
Hamilton E. James
Vice Chair
Elizabeth Ainslie
Secretary
Elected Trustees
Elizabeth Ainslie
Frederick W. Beinecke
Rosina M. Bierbaum
Duncan A. Chapman
Rudolph F. Crew
Katherine L. Dolan
Gordon E. Dyal
Thomas J. Edelman
Christopher J. Elliman
Paul A. Gould
Peter T. Grauer
Jonathan D. Green
Antonia M. Grumbach
O. Andreas Halvorsen
Judith H. Hamilton
John N. Irwin III
Hamilton E. James
Julia Marton-Lefèvre
David J. Millstone
Ambrose K. Monell
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi
Alejandro Santo Domingo
Juan Manuel Santos
David B "Scott" Schiff
Walter C. Sedgwick
Katherine Sherrill
Caroline N. Sidnam
Loretta M. Stadler
Andrew H. Tisch
Roselinde Torres
Marcel van Poecke
Akiko Yamazaki
Robert B. Zoellick
Ex Officio Trustees
Eric Adams
Mayor of the City of New York
Brad Lander
Comptroller of the City of New York
Adrienne E. Adams
Speaker, New York City Council
Gabrielle Fialkoff
Commissioner, Department of Parks
and Recreation, City of New York
Gonzalo Casals
Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs,
City of New York
Vanessa L. Gibson
President, Borough of the Bronx
Antonio Reynoso
President, Borough of Brooklyn
Cristián Samper, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Wildlife Conservation Society
Life Trustees
C. Diane Christensen
Howard Phipps, Jr.
Chair Emeritus
Julian Robertson
David T Schiff
Chair Emeritus
Mrs. Leonard N. Stern
Ward W. Woods
Chair Emeritus
Barbara Hrbek Zucker
Trustees Emeriti
Eleanor Briggs
Jonathan L. Cohen
Bradley L. Goldberg
Brian J. Heidtke
WCS Council
The WCS Council brings together a core of WCS supporters to help advance our mission and provide leadership support as we expand our programs and initiatives.
"Making good on WCS's ambitious conservation strategy requiresfirst rate leadership throughout the organization. I am proud to work with WCS's highly competent and accomplished leadership team, at the executive level and within each of our divisions. Together we strive to save wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature."
Cristián Samper, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer
Cristián Samper, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Robert G. Menzi
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
James J. Breheny
Executive Vice President & General Director, Zoos and Aquarium, and Jonathan Little Cohen Director of the Bronx Zoo
John F. Calvelli
Executive Vice President for Public Affairs
Paula Hayes
Executive Vice President and Chief of Global Resources
Joseph Walston
Executive Vice President for Global Conservation
Mary A. Dixon
Senior Vice President for Communications
Christopher J. McKenzie, Esq.
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Deputy Secretary
Laura Stolzenthaler
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
A more complete listing of WCS's worldwide leadership is contained in WCS's Annual Report.
As of February 2022
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