William Reilly

William K. Reilly is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP, an international investment partnership.  During his tenure with TPG, he was the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners (1998-2010) a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies in the water sector.  Mr. Reilly served as the first Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), president of World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), president of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989), and a senior staff member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality (1970-1972).  He headed the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, and served as one of the seven original Trustees appointed by President Clinton to manage the Presidio National Park in San Francisco.  In May 2010, he was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling and in late 2012 to the President’s Global Development Council.  Mr. Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of World Wildlife Fund and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the ClimateWorks Foundation. He served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy. He recently rotated off the boards of directors of ConocoPhillips, DuPont, and the National Geographic Society, and he currently serves on the boards of Royal Caribbean International and Energy Future Holdings.  In 2007 Mr. Reilly was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served in the U.S. Army to the rank of Captain, and holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard, and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.