Kathryn S. Fuller
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Kathryn S. Fuller is the chair of the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. She served as chair of the Ford Foundation from May 2004 until October 2010.
Fuller graduated from Pembroke College (Brown University) in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1968, and from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas, in 1976. She was the president and chief executive officer of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from 1989 until July 2005.
She had various responsibilities within WWF and The Conservation Foundation from 1982 to 1989, including executive vice president, general counsel, and director of public policy and wildlife trade monitoring programs.
Earlier in her career, she held several positions in the United States Department of Justice, culminating as Chief, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, in 1981 and 1982. At the department, Fuller worked as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel, where she prepared Attorney General opinions and provided advice to the President and executive agencies on constitutional and federal statutory questions.
Other directorships: Alcoa, Inc., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Summit Foundation, the Greater Himalayas Foundation. Previously member of the Brown University Corporation.[1]
References
- ^ Alcoa: Board Member's biographies, Kathryn Fuller biography