ECF has formed an Expert Advisory Committee to assist
the Fund in developing its strategy, providing high scale advisory
to the ECF Board, and from time to time evaluating specific opportunities.
Its members comprise individuals with strong and valuable expertise
in the fields of environment and sustainable development:
Brice Lalonde
Brice Lalonde is a well known environmentalist in France. He has
been for ten years a senior consultant on sustainable development
to companies, governments and international organisations. As minister
for the environment in the French government from 1988 to 1992, he
has strongly contributed to shape the French environmental policy
until nowadays. He was the first to introduce in France concerns
about global warming.
Mr Lalonde was director of the Paris office of the Institute for
an European environmental policy. He chaired the French chapter of
Friends of the Earth and he ran on the ecology ticket in the French
presidential election in 1981.
Mr Lalonde is now the mayor of a small seaside town in Brittany
and he is member of various official committees dealing with the
environment.
He holds degrees in law and classical education from the Sorbonne
University in Paris.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (1989-1993), and president of the World Wildlife
Fund (1985-1989). He was head of the U.S. delegation to the United
Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. As EPA Administrator Mr. Reilly
was responsible for initiating and overseeing the design and implementation
of the Clean Air Act of 1990 which pioneered a 50 percent reduction
of acid rain precursors and trading of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen
oxide, which has become the model for the trading system in the Kyoto
Protocol.
Mr Reilly is presently a founding partner of Aqua International
Partners (part of the Texas Pacific Group), a private equity fund
dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable
energy.
He is also Chairman of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund, Co-Chair
of the National Commission on Energy Policy, Chair of the Advisory
Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
at Duke University, and a Director of the Packard Foundation, the
National Geographic Society, and the American Academy in Rome. He
also serves on the Board of Directors of DuPont, ConocoPhillips,
and Royal Caribbean International.
He holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard and M. S. in
Urban Planning from Columbia University.
Enrico "Chicco" Testa
Enrico “Chicco” Testa served as President of the Kyoto
Club (2002-2005), as Chairman of the Board at ENEL S.p.A. (1996-2002),
and was founder and member of the Board of Directors of WIND S.p.A.
(GSM and UMTS operator). In previous years, he had been Executive
President of the Board of Directors at ACEA, Rome's power and water
company (1994-1996), was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the
Italian Parliament (1987-1994), and was national secretary and later
Chairman at Lega per l’Ambiente (environmental league, today
known as Legambiente, 1980-1987).
Mr Testa is currently Executive President of Roma Metropolitane
S.p.A. (the company building the new underground lines in Rome),
Member of the Board of Rothschild S.p.A. (Italy), and Executive President
at E.V.A. (a company developing hydropower generation plants).
He is also the Chairman of the organising committee of the World
Energy Council that will take place in Rome in 2007, and is a member
of the European Advisory Board at The Carlyle Group as well as the
Board of Directors at Lloyd Adriatico (Allianz Group). He is a professor
at the LUISS School of Management in Rome (MBA program).
He holds a degree in philosophy from the Università Statale
in Milan (1976), and studied economic issues at various universities
and foundations in Europe and the U.S. |
