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• James Addis (Co-Chair)
• Mr. Addis retired from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources after working in natural resource management for 37 years. His academic training is in biochemistry, marine ecology, limnology, and fisheries.

• James Borden
• Mr. Borden retired in 1990 after 38 years of employment with the DuPont Company. His responsibilities at DuPont included directing or conducting studies in the areas of corporate fuels and feedstock needs and supply sources in the U.S. and Europe, impacts of energy price changes, proposed legislation on corporate costs and profitability, and world energy supply and demands.

• Stuart Cagen
• Mr. Cagen's is toxicology adviser at Shell Chemicals, Ltd,, Houston, Texas,  specializing in endocrine, reproductive and developmental toxicology, mechanisms of toxicology, and risk assessment. He holds a B.S. from UW-Madison and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Michigan State University.

• Jay Carlson
• Mr. Carlson served as counsel for the taxpayer in the three largest decided cases in the history of the U.S. Tax Court. Mr. Carlson has more than 30 years of litigation experience. Articles include "Teamwork Among Counsel Equals Success in Litigation" and "The Tax Advice Privilege is Alive and Well."

• Michael Dombeck
• Dr. Dombeck is a University of Wisconsin System Fellow and professor of global conservation at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Previously, he was chief of the U.S. Forest Service for four years. As head of the forest service, he moved to protect old-growth areas, prohibited mining in areas of the Rocky Mountains, and halted road-building and most logging in one-third of the national forests.

• Scott Johnson
• Mr. Johnson is vice president for global environmental and safety actions at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., in Racine, Wisconsin. He provides global leadership to facilitate the development and implementation of environmental and safety policies, strategies and actions that build upon the corporation’s eco-efficiency efforts of the 1990s and commitment to responsible environmental management.

• Pamela Matson
• Dr. Matson is the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University. She is also the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies and a member of the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford. Her research focuses on biogeochemical cycling and biosphere-atmosphere interactions in tropical forests and agricultural systems.

• Julia Nault
• Ms. Nault is a vice president at Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., a global consulting, engineering, construction, and operations firm that focuses on environment and infrastructure, with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received her B.S. degree in wildlife management from the University of Minnesota and is a 1984 graduate of the Nelson Institute’s Water Resources Management Graduate Program.

• John S. Nelson
• Mr. Nelson is a consultant to the design and construction industry. He has served as project engineer, department head, project manager, vice president and chief executive officer at Affiliated Engineers, Inc., in Madison. His background includes design, applications and research experience with dynamic building systems, along with business and project management. His research interests include sustainability and lean design. John Nelson holds an master's degree in mechanical engineering from UW-Madison, where is an adjunct professor in the College of Engineering.

• Tia Nelson (Co-Chair)
• Ms. Nelson is executive secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands for the State of Wisconsin. She formerly worked for the Nature Conservancy, where she established its Climate Change Program and developed monitoring and verification for its forestry sector offset projects. She has a B.S. in wildlife ecology from UW-Madison.

• Lew Posekany, Jr.
• Mr. Posekany recently retired after a career as a managing attorney and business executive in oil and gas exploration and production and gas pipelines. He is an alumnus of the Nelson Institute's Water Resources Management Graduate Program and received his J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1969. Mr. Posekany has worked for the Coastal Corporation in Detroit and Houston and the Cenergy Corporation in Dallas as well as for the Williams Companies, Inc., in Tulsa and Houston, where he was senior vice president for group planning and development.

• Gail Wurtzler
• Ms. Wurtzler is an environmental lawyer with Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP in Denver, Colorado.  She was born and raised in Wisconsin, and she graduated from the UW-Madison with a B.A. in political science and economics. She received a J.D. from the University of Chicago, where she worked for the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Her practice currently focuses on environmental toxic torts, natural resource damages, hazardous waste remediation, and brownfields redevelopment. She has also worked extensively on energy, mining, water rights, and public lands issues. She is a former editor-in-chief of Natural Resources & Environment, the quarterly journal of the American Bar Association's section on Environment, Energy and Resources. She frequently speaks and writes on environmental and natural resources law topics.