Honorary Trustees of the Institute are individuals whose achievements embody the purposes of the Institute. They have been appointed by the Board.
Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
STEFANOS GEROULANOS
Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, Greece, until his retirement (2010).
PROSSER GIFFORD †
Founding director of the Office of Scholarly Programs and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
DAN MOERMAN
William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at The University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI.
DAN H. NICOLSON †
Emeritus Curator and Research Botanist, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
John PARASCANDOLA
Adjunt Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
PETER H. RAVEN
President Emeritus Missouri Botanical Gardens, and George Engelmann Professor Emeritus of Botany, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
CRISTIÁN SAMPER
President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York, NY.
NANCY J. TURNER
Distinguished Professor and Hakai Chair in Ethnoecology, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.