Jonathan Lash (born August 12, 1945) is an American attorney who was the sixth president of

Hampshire College Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...

(2011–2018) and member of the board of directors of the

World Resources Institute The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research non-profit organization established in 1982 with funding from the MacArthur Foundation under the leadership of James Gustave Speth. WRI's activities are focused on seven areas: food, fore ...

where he served as president from 1993 to 2011. He resigned as president of Hampshire effective June 30, 2018. He assumed the role of sixth president of

in May, 2011 and was inaugurated on April 27, 2011. In 1993, he became president of the

. From 1993 to 1999, Lash was co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development. He played a key role in the creation of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which in 2007 issued the "Call to Action" on global warming.

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Accessed August 9, 2014. From 1987 to 1990, Lash served as Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, having served the previous two years as Vermont's Commissioner of Environmental Conservation. During his tenure in Vermont government, Lash helped write, win enactment of and implement statutes on issues ranging from pollution prevention and solid waste management to protection of streams. In 1990 he became director of the Environmental Law Center at the Vermont Law School, rated the best program of its kind in the United States. A former

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volunteer and federal prosecutor, Lash worked as a senior staff attorney at the

Natural Resources Defense Council The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a United States-based 501(c)(3) non-profit international environmental advocacy group, with its headquarters in New York City and offices in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Bo ...

(NRDC) from 1978 to 1985, litigating and lobbying on issues related to pollution control, federal coal leasing, strip mining, and energy conservation. Lash received an A.B. from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

and a J.D. degree and master's degrees from

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Bibliography

*''A Season of Spoils: The Reagan Administration's Attack on the Environment,'' by Jonathan Lash, David Sheridan, and Katherine Gillman, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

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