Peter Hillary, Honorary Chair
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND International New Zealand mountaineer, adventurer and fundraiser for the various Trusts founded by Sir Edmund Hillary.
Conrad Anker
Bozeman, MT, USA International mountain climber, professionally certified guide and founder of the Khumbu Climbing School.
Kelsang Aukatsang San Francisco, CA, USA Campaign Director, Tibetan Community Center of Northern California and the US Representative for Instituto Terra, Brazil.
Yuri Badenkov
Moscow, RUSSIA Deputy Director, Director and Head of Mountain Laboratory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Miranda Berner New Castle, PA, USA Project Director, Berner International Corporation, New Castle, PA.
Gary Braasch Portland Oregon, USA Environmental photojournalist documenting environment, bio-diversity and global warming - including World View Global Warming.
Jeffrey Bury Santa Cruz, California, USA Geographer in the Department of Environmental Studies, UC, research focusing on mapping, climate change, mining and conservation in the Peruvian Andes
Julius Coles
Washington, DC US President of Africare, previously career Foreign Service Officer with USAID.
Susan Dishart Somers, New York, USA Director of Planned Giving, Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Yorktown Heights, NY.
Greg MacGillivray
Laguna Beach, California, USA Producer, Director and Cinematographer, MacGillivray Freeman Films, producers of giant-screen IMAX films including Everest and Grand Canyon Adventure.
Bryan G. Mark Columbus, Ohio, USA Department of Geography faculty member and Byrd Polar Research Center research scientist at The Ohio State University, with expertise on tropical glacier environmental change, water resources and global climate change.
Kenton Miller Mathias West Virginia, USA Worldwide experience in planning and management of protected areas, former IUCN Director General, head of UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Latin American Programme on Wildland Management, and Associate Professor of Natural Resources at U Michigan's School of Natural Resources.
Hemanta R. Mishra Vienna, Virginia, USA Executive Director, Newpeak Foundation, Senior Advisor, American Himalayan Foundation and winner J. Paul Getty Conservation Prize.
Jake Norton Golden, Colorado, USA International mountain climber, professionally certified guide and photographer, Director of the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum, Golden, CO.
Phil Powers Golden, Colorado, USA Mountaineer, author and Executive Director, the American Alpine Club; formerly with Outdoor Leadership School and Naropa University.
Aditya Narain Purohit
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDIA Vice-Chancellor of and Director of High Altitude Plant Physiology Research Center of H.N.B. Garhwal University and founder G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development.
