Kathryn S. Fuller
Kathryn S. Fuller is chair of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. She serves as chair of the board's Executive and Membership committees, and is also a member of four other committees: Investment; Management and Governance; Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom; and Proxy.
Ms. Fuller was president and chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from 1989 to 2005. Prior to that, she was executive vice president, general counsel and director of WWF's programs in public policy and wildlife trade monitoring. Before joining WWF, she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, first in the Office of Legal Counsel, then as a trial attorney in the Land and Natural Resources Division, where she helped create the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section. She became chief of the section in 1981 and in 1992 was a special adviser to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.
Born in New York City, Ms. Fuller received her B.A. in English and American literature from Brown University in 1968. She earned a law degree with honors from the University of Texas and pursued graduate studies in marine, estuarine and environmental science at the University of Maryland.
Ms. Fuller's board memberships include service on the Board of Trustees of Resources for the Future, the Summit Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and Alcoa Inc., as well as on the Board of Fellows of Brown University and the Board of Overseers for the university's Watson Institute for International Studies.