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David G. Hawkins, a leading environ-
RFF WELCOMES TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS
At its annual Board of Directors
meeting in October 2002, RFF
elected two new members: W.
Bowman Cutter of the New York venture capital firm, Warburg Pincus,
and David G. Hawkins of the Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
W. Bowman Cutter became a managing director of
Warburg Pincus
in March 1996.
He returned to
the private sector
after serving in
W. Bowman
the Clinton
Cutter
administration as
deputy assistant to the president for
economic policy. His work for the
National Economic Council, established by President Clinton to
oversee the development and implementation of United States
economic policy, focused on developing the economic policymaking
process and shaping international
and domestic economic policy
issues.
In his private sector career,
Cutter served as senior partner at
Coopers & Lybrand. He was also the
firm’s vice chairman for strategy.
mentalist, is the
director of the
NRDC Climate
Center, which
focuses on
advancing policies
David Hawkins
and programs to
reduce pollution responsible for
global warming. Since 1990, he has
also directed NRDC’s Air and
Energy Program.
His other positions at Coopers &
Lybrand included: managing partner of the firm’s Strategic Services
business and chairman of its
Information and Communications
Industry sector. Cutter was also a
member of Coopers & Lybrand’s
firm council, the firm’s principal
governing body elected by the partnership as a whole.
Prior to joining Coopers &
Lybrand, Cutter was executive associate director for budget at the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
under President Carter. There he
reported to the OMB director on
the development of the president’s
budget for federal government. In
1984, he served as a senior economic
and budgetary advisor to former vice
president Walter Mondale during his
presidential campaign. Cutter also
worked extensively with the World
Bank on problems of public sector
management, organizational design,
and public sector budgeting in
developing nations.
Cutter holds degrees from
Harvard University (summa cum
laude), Oxford University (as a
Rhodes Scholar), and Princeton
University’s Woodrow Wilson
School.
Hawkins began his work in public-interest law upon graduation
from Columbia University Law
School in 1970. In 1971, he joined
NRDC’s Washington office, where
together with former NRDC attorney
Dick Ayres, he began NRDC’s Clean
Air Project. The project has monitored and shaped the design of the
federal Clean Air Act since the law’s
passage. The intent of the project
has been to provide a voice for the
public in the countless decisions that
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and state environmental agencies make every year in
delivering on the law’s promise of
improved air quality.
In the early 1970s, Hawkins was
successful in persuading EPA to deny
delays to the auto industry in meeting
pollution cleanup schedules. He also
won a major case requiring EPA to
develop programs to improve trans-
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portation systems in urban areas as
an air pollution control strategy.
In 1977, President Carter
appointed Hawkins to be assistant
administrator for air, noise, and
radiation at EPA. There, he was
responsible for initiating major new
programs under the 1977
Amendments to the Clean Air Act.
With President Reagan’s election in 1981, Hawkins returned to
NRDC to co-direct its Clean Air
Program. Working with the Clean
Air Coalition, NRDC defeated a
prolonged effort by the new administration to roll back the protections
to the Clean Air Act. Eventually
Congress passed a much-strengthened law in 1990 and NRDC was
one of the major architects of all its
provisions.
MR. COOPER GOES
[BACK] TO WASHINGTON
RFF bids farewell to board member
James H.S. Cooper. He has stepped
down from RFF’s board of directors
to represent the fifth congressional
district of Tennessee in the U.S.
House of Representatives. Cooper
served Tennessee’s fourth congressional district from 1983 to 1995
and most recently was chairman of
Brentwood Capital Advisors in
Brentwood, TN.
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RFF’s 50th anniversary
gala dinner was held at the
Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade
Center, in Washington,
DC.