Nicholas Institute Board of Advisors
William
K. Reilly, Chair
William K. Reilly is a Founding Partner of Aqua International
Partners, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in
companies engaged in water and renewable energy, and a Senior
Advisor to TPG, an international investment partnership. Mr.
Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford
University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (1989-1993), president of the World Wildlife
Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation
(1973-1989), and director of the Rockefeller Task Force on
Land Use and Urban Growth from (1972-1973). He was head of
the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at
Rio in 1992.
Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus 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, Chair of the San Francisco Mayor’s Clean Tech Advisory Council and a Director of the Packard Foundation, the American Academy in Rome and the National Geographic Society. 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.





