William K. Reilly

William K. Reilly is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership. Reilly was the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners (1998-2010), a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies in the water sector. Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993) where he lead Bush Administration advocate for the cap and trade program under the Clean Air Act of 1990, president of 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 (1972-1973). While at EPA, Reilly elevated attention to restoring the health of natural systems, including the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, and other water bodies. He played a pivotal role in crafting and securing passage of a new Clean Air bill, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bush in November 1990. Reilly also played a leading role in asserting environmental priorities in U.S. foreign policy. He headed the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. In May 2010, Reilly was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of World Wildlife Fund, Chairman of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Policy Center Energy Project, Co-Chairman of the Board of the Global Water Challenge, and a Director of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He recently rotated off the Board of Directors of DuPont, and currently serves on the boards of ConocoPhillips, Royal Caribbean International, and Energy Future Holdings, for which he serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Advisory Board. He is also a board member of the National Geographic Society and the American Academy in Rome. By appointment of the President, he serves as one of the seven members of the Presidio Trust of San Francisco, which manages The Presidio National Park. In 2012, President Obama appointed Reilly to the newly formed Global Development Council, the mission of which is to advise the president on future directions for U.S. foreign assistance.