Mountain Institute

The Mountain Institute "is an international non-profit organization dedicated to conservation, community development, and cultural preservation in the Andes, Appalachian, Himalayan, and other mountain ranges of the world." [1]

Executive Office

• Bob Davis, President and CEO, Director of Operations
• Sarah Davis, Executive Assistant
• Elsie Walker, Director of Special Projects
• Lyn Soudien, Director of Development

For details of other staff

Senior Fellows

• Gabriel Campbell, Ph.D., is the Director General of the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
• E. Walter Coward, Jr., Ph.D., now retired, formerly was Professor of Development Sociology and Asian Studies at Cornell University and later a senior director at the Ford Foundation.
• Johan Reinhard, Ph.D., is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, famous for his discoveries of Inca mummies, frozen sacrifices on the peaks of the Andes in Peru and Argentina.
• Robert Wampler, Ph.D.

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Trustees

• Joseph D. Teplitz - Chairman - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
• Elsie M. Walker, Vice-Chairman - Chevy Chase, Maryland
• Jim Underwood, Secretary - Franklin, West Virginia
• Eliot Kalter, Treasurer - Washington, D.C.
• Ted Armbrecht, Jr. - Charleston, West Virginia
• Jack Bluestein - Leesburg, Virginia
• Walt Coward - Marietta, Georgia
• Pauline B. Danino - Washington, D.C.
• Lee Elman - New York, New York
• Jane M. Farmer - Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Indira Mansingh - New Delhi, India
• Gail Percy - Washington, D.C.
• Robert Reynolds - Mill Valley, California
• Robert Rhoades, Ph.D. - Athens, Georgia
• David Sloan - Washington, D.C.
• Harvey Sloane, MD - Washington, D.C.

Emeritus Trustees

• Thomas B. Eastman - Baltimore, Maryland
• Angus Peyton - Charleston, West Virginia
• King Seeger, MD - Franklin, West Virginia
• Robert H. Whitby - Greenwich, Connecticut

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Former Directors

• Julius E. Coles

Publications

• 2005 Annual Report, (Pdf)

Contact

Web: http://www.mountain.org

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch articles

• Ganesan Balachander
• Jane Pratt - former president and Ceo
• Catherine Nixon Cooke - former president and Ceo