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LEADERSHIP

Steering Committee and Leadership as of 2014

Co-Chairs

The Honorable Pat Quinn
Governor, State of Illinois

The Honorable Jay Dardenne
Lt. Governor, State of Louisiana

Committee Members

Joe Accardo
Executive Director, Ports Association of Louisiana

The Honorable John Alario, Jr.
Senate President, State of Louisiana

Scott Angelle
Former Secretary, Louisiana Department of Natural Resources

Phil Bass
Director, Gulf of Mexico Alliance

Dr. Donald Boesch
President, Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland

The Honorable John Breaux
U.S. Senator (LA) 1987-2005

Valerie Cahill
Chairperson of the Board, Port of New Orleans

The Honorable Joel T. Chaisson, J.D.
Former Senate President & 29th Judicial District Court Judge, (ret.)
Louisiana Legislature / St. Charles Parish

Zhongyuan Chen, Ph.D
Professor, State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research
East China Normal University, Shanghai

Doug Daigle
Coordinator, Lower Mississippi River Sub-Basin Committee

Mark Davis, J.D
Director, Institute on Water Resource Law, Tulane University

John Day, Ph.D
Professor, Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University

Maj. Gen. Hunt Downer, ARNG, Ret.
Former Speaker of the House, Louisiana Legislature

Sean Duffy
Executive Director, Big River Coalition

George Dunklin, Jr.
Chairman, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

C. Berwick Duval, II
Vice Chairman, Foundation for Louisiana

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Ph.D
Director, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota

Karen Gautreaux
Director of Government Relations, Louisiana Chapter, The Nature Conservancy

Teri Goodman
Assistant City Manager, City of Dubuque, IA

Claude Griffin
Social Investment Manager – Environment, Shell

Charles ‘Chip’ Groat, Ph.D
President & CEO, The Water Institute of the Gulf

Dale Hall
CEO, Ducks Unlimited

Michael Hecht
President & CEO, Greater New Orleans, INC

The Honorable Kip Holden
Mayor-President, City of Baton Rouge, LA

LT. Gen. Russel Honoré
US Army (Ret.)

Susan Kaderka
South Central Regional Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation

The Honorable Mitch Landrieu
Mayor, City of New Orleans, LA

Steve Mathies, Ph.D
Steering Committee Member, America’s Great Watershed Initiative

Irvin Mayfield
Artistic Director, New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

Paul McIlhenny
Chairman & CEO, McIlhenny Company (makers of Tobasco)

Doug Meffert, Ph.D
Vice President, National Audubon Society

Dale Morris
Senior Economist, Royal Netherlands Embassy

Chris Paola, Ph.D
Principal Investigator, National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota

Sarah Pauley
Director, Missouri Department of Natural Resources

Denise Reed
Laboratory Director, Lake Ponchartrain Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of New Orleans

Randy Roach
Mayor, City of Lake Charles, LA

Sybil Seitzinger
Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University

William Clifford Smith
Member-Designee, Mississippi River Commission

The Honorable Mike Strain, D.V.M
Commissioner, Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry

James Syvitski
Executive Director, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, University of Colorado

Torbjorn Tornqvist, Ph.D
Director, NICCR Coastal Center, Tulane University

Robert Twilley, Ph.D
Executive Director, Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Professor, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University

Wiliam Walker, Ph.D
Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

Marcia Willhite
Bureau Chief, EPA Bureau of Water, Illinois

Warner Williams
President, Gulf of Mexico Business Unit, Chevron Corporation

Jerome Zeringue
Executive Director, Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration, Louisiana

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