Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert, Co-Chair
Planner and Regional Sustainability Coordinator at Greater Portland Council of Governments, Portland, Maine
Rebecca received her Masters in Environment and Natural Resources from the University of Vermont (M.S. 2008), where she focused on climate and energy policy, a continuation of previous work at Maine Energy Investment Corporation. She currently works for the Greater Portland Council of Governments on climate and energy issues, specifically greenhouse gas inventories and sustainable transportation. Rebecca serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Maine League of Conservation Voters and is active in the Maine environmental and civil rights community. She graduated with honors in anthropology from Brown University in 2003, where her studies focused on the cultural component of environmental problems and solutions. Rebecca joined ERI's board in October 2006.
Neil Popovic, Co-Chair
Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP; Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Neil A.F. Popovic is a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, where he practices complex litigation, with an emphasis on international disputes. His practice also includes consumer class actions, white collar criminal defense and international environmental law. He teaches International Environmental Law and Resolution of Private International Disputes(co-taught with Prof. David D. Caron) at Berkeley Law, and has published numerous articles on international environmental law, including human rights and the environment. Mr. Popovic previously worked as an attorney in the International Program of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice), and continues to work with Earthjustice as a consultant. Mr. Popovic has served on the board of ERI since its inception in 2000. He also sits on the board of directors of the Center for Youth Development through Law, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at Berkeley Law.
Dr. Charlie Clements
Executive Director, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Charlie Clements is a public health physician and human rights activist. He grew up in an Air Force family, was a Distinguished Graduate of the US Air Force Academy, and as a newly trained transport pilot volunteered to serve in SE Asia. Nine months into his tour of duty, coming to believe that what he was being asked to do was immoral, Charlie refused to fly further missions in support of the invasion of Cambodia. Later upon becoming a physician and believing another Vietnam was beginning in El Salvador, he volunteered again, but this time as an unarmed physician treating civilians in rural villages that would become ‘free fire zones.’ It was there Charlie first encountered the toll of landmines on civilians, which would subsequently motivate his involvement in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). As President of Physicians for Human Rights, he represented that organization both at the treaty signing and the Nobel prize ceremony of the ICBL. Witness to War, is the title of his book (Bantam, 1984) and an Academy Award winning documentary (1985), which describe his journey of conscience from Vietnam to El Salvador. Charlie has led a number of not-for-profit organizations and been widely recognized for his humanitarian efforts. He joined the ERI board of directors in 2005.
Toshiyuki Doi
Representative Director & Member of the Executive Board, Mekong Watch
Toshiyuki Doi is Representative Director and a member of the Executive Board of Mekong Watch, as well as a Japan Research Fellow at the Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development at Mahidol University in Salaya, Thailand. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Studies Institute at Waseda University in Japan, and has served on the EarthRights International board of directors since August, 2005.
Marianne Manilov
Founder, Center for Commercial-Free Public Education
Marianne Manilov is a grassroots organizer and media strategist. In her decades-long professional career, she’s run campaigns and programs for various organizations, including Amnesty International and Greenpeace International. She is the co-founder and former Executive Director of The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education, home of the UNPLUG campaign against Channel One. Under Marianne’s direction, the Center was credited with bringing the issue of corporate influence and advertising in schools onto the national agenda, including congressional hearings. Marianne and her work have been widely recognized in numerous national and international media outlets. In addition to being on the ERI Board, which she joined in 2000, she serves on the board of directors of the Movement Strategy Center, and is part of the Full Circle Fund, a network of engaged philanthropists.
Kumi Naidoo
Honorary President, CIVICUS: the World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Kumi is Honorary President of CIVICUS: the World Alliance for Citizen Participation, an international alliance of organizations dedicated to strengthening citizen participation and civil society worldwide. He was founding director of the South African NGO Coalition and served on the task team that drafted new NGO legislation. He has worked extensively in adult education and on social and economic justice issues, and has been an African National Congress activist. After spending some years in exile he was centrally involved in the first democratic elections in South Africa, in 1994. He has a doctorate in political science from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and currently serves as chairperson of the Partnership for Transparency Fund, which supports civil society efforts to eradicate corruption. He is also the Co-Chair of GCAP (Global Call to Action Against Poverty) and the Chair of GCCA (Global Call to Climate Action). Kumi was appointed by the UN Secretary General to the Panel of Eminent Persons on UN Civil Society Relations, and is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Governance Initiative. Kumi will take on the role of Executive Director of Greenpeace International in November 2009, and has been on the ERI Board since 2006.
Laura Levine
Attorney
Laura Levine practiced litigation at Dickstein Shapiro LLP in Washington DC from 1989 to 2002. She had a diverse practice in both federal and state courts involving a wide range of issues, including environmental law, white collar criminal defense and commercial transactions. She has a long-standing interest in public service, and has performed pro bono work for a number of public interest organizations, including the Legal Aid Society and the Legal Counsel for the Elderly. Before joining Dickstein Shapiro, Ms. Levine was a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Steadman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She is admitted to practice in New York and Washington DC. Ms. Levine has also been an Adjunct Professor of English at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. Ms. Levine graduated from Stanford Law School, where she was a note editor of the Stanford Law Review, in 1987. She received an M.A. in English Literature from Columbia University in 1984, and a B.A. from Brown University in 1981. Ms. Levine is an enthusiastic supporter of ERI’s mission, and joined the Board in November 2009.