THE U.S. WATER PARTNERSHIP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman Emeritus of the Stimson Center
Ambassador Bloomfield is Chairman Emeritus of the Stimson Center; a Board Member of the Global Environmental & Technology Foundation; a Director of The Last Kilometer, a Detroit non-profit supporting energy access for underdeveloped societies; and Vice Chairman of Mana Pacific, a Hawaii-based benefit corporation providing a platform for financing and project development of locally-owned and -controlled renewable energy microgrids in the Pacific Islands. He is President of Palmer Coates LLC; non-attorney consultant at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Principal Senior Advisor at C&O Resources, a Middle East policy advisory; Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors, a global strategic advisory to companies; and a principal with three companies developing technologies important to a sustainable future.
As an appointee in five previous Administrations, he was a Presidential Special Envoy, from 2008-2009, leading U.S. efforts to protect international aviation from shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, and Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs from 2001 to 2005, serving concurrently as the President's Special Representative on the landmine issue and head of the U.S. government's international outreach on critical infrastructure protection, including cybersecurity. He formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1992-1993); Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs (1991-2002); Member, U.S. Delegation to Philippine Bases Negotiations (1990-1991); Member, U.S. Water Mediation in the Middle East (1989-1990); and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1988-1989), with other U.S. Department of Defense policy positions dating from 1981.
A graduate of Harvard College (a.b. cum laude, 1974) and the Fletcher School (M.A.L.D., 1980), he is author or editor of two books and numerous policy articles.
Richard Armitage is the former Deputy Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. Prior to returning to government service in 2001, Mr. Armitage was President of Armitage Associates L.C. from May 1993 until March 2001. He has been engaged in a range of worldwide business and public policy endeavors.
From March 1992 until his departure from public service in May 1993, Mr. Armitage directed U.S. assistance to the new independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. From 1989 through 1992, Mr. Armitage filled key diplomatic positions as Presidential Special Negotiator for the Philippines Military Bases Agreement, as Special Mediator for Water in the Middle East and as Special Emissary to Jordan's King Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. In the Pentagon from June 1983 to May 1989, he served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
Mr. Armitage has received numerous U.S. military decorations as well as decorations from the governments of Thailand, Republic of Korea, Bahrain, and Pakistan. He has been awarded the Department of State Distinguished Service Award, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service four times, the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Presidential Citizens Medal and the Department of State Distinguished Honor Award.
Job Titles:
- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Executive Director of the U.S. Water Partnership
Christopher E. Rich is the Executive Director of the U.S. Water Partnership (USWP) and leads the Partnership's efforts to mobilize the best of American hydrology, engineering, and ingenuity to address some of the world's greatest water challenges.
With three decades of experience in building international trust and relationships as a U.S. diplomat, Chris is the Project Director of USWP's flagship Water Smart Engagements (WiSE), an innovative project building long-term relationships between Southeast Asian Smart Cities Network water utilities and leading water utilities across the United States. WiSE seeks to mutually benefit partners, increase water security, and expand the exchange of goods, services, and technologies with this dynamic region. Previously at the U.S. Department of State, Chris served as a political reporting officer at six U.S. embassies in South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies. He later coordinated U.S. policies on climate change, marine conservation, biodiversity, combatting wildlife trafficking, transboundary waters and other critical environmental and health topics in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Chris served on the operations staff of the U.S. Peace Corps where he administered five Peace Corps country programs in the Pacific Islands. Prior to that, he conducted water and sanitation training with the Indian Health Service for Peace Corps trainees. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer assisting small famers in a remote region of northern Luzon in the Republic of the Philippines for three years. He holds a certificate in Maharashtrian Language and Culture from the Savitribai Phule Pune University in India and a Certificate in Rice Production from the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, the Philippines. Chris holds a BA in anthropology from Colorado College, and attended Zama Middle and High Schools in Sobudaimae, Japan.
Job Titles:
- Ambassador
- Co - Chair of the Global Leadership Council
Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is a former diplomat and attorney, who served in numerous positions at the Department of State, including U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994 - 1997); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (1997 -2001); Special Representative for Global Partnerships (2009 - 2010); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2010 - 2013) and Secretary of State John Kerry (2013 - 2017); and Special Representative to the United Nations General Assembly, appointed by President Obama in 2011.
Ambassador Bagley has been an early and active supporter of VP Biden's presidential campaign. She served at the top level of the Biden Finance Council, was Co-Chair of Catholics for Biden, and a member of the foreign policy working group on Europe, Ambassadors for Biden, Women for Biden, and Lawyers for Biden. She also served as a surrogate speaker in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina and was a Florida poll watcher with the Biden Voter Protection team.
Ambassador Bagley served as Vice Chair of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, a Presidential appointment with Senate confirmation, from 2003 - 2009. She has also served as Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Democratic National Committee and Chair of the Clinton Library Board of Trustees.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the American Ireland Fund, the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Co-Chair of the Global Leadership Council, UN Foundation.
Upon her departure from Portugal, she received meritorious awards from the Portuguese Navy and Air Force, as well as the "Grand Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator," the President of Portugal's highest civilian commendation. She has also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Regis College in 2003, the "Global Democracy Award" from the International Women's Democracy Center in March, 2005, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May, 2005, the 2010 Meridian International Public Diplomacy Award, and the 2013 Secretary of State's Distinguished Honor Award.
Ambassador Bagley graduated cum laude from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, with a B.A. degree in French and Spanish. She is a 1987 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she obtained a J.D. Degree in International Law. Ambassador Bagley is a member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar and District of Columbia Bar.
She is the proud mother of two children, a daughter, Vaughan, age 30, a graduate of Stanford University, and son Conor, age 27, a graduate of Yale University.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Chairman of the Board at the Marshall Legacy Institute
General Gordon R. Sullivan currently serves as the Founder and Chairman of the Board at the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI). The MLI is a humanitarian organization formed in 1997 to promote hope, growth and stability in war torn countries by providing Mine Detection Dogs to eliminate land mines. He is also a member of the MIT Lincoln Labs Advisory Board, a Life Trustee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and a member of the President's Council of the Woodwell Climate Research Center.
General Sullivan served as the founding Chairman of the CNA Military Advisory Board on Climate Change and National Security. Founded in 2007, the CNA Military Advisory Board was the first group of senior retired US generals and admirals to address the national security implications of climate change. Their landmark report, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, characterized climate change as a "threat multiplier" and helped educate a generation of military and civilian leaders on the risks of climate change to our armed forces. Gen. Sullivan addressed the risk of climate change: "We never have 100 percent certainty. We never have it. If you wait until you have 100 certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield." The CNA Military Advisory Board has issued multiple reports, including National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change in 2014.
We're mourning the passing of USWP NEC member and former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan. General Sullivan passed away at the age of 86. General Sullivan had a distinguished Army career and was a leader at the Pentagon for the environment and climate security. We were privileged to have had General Sullivan with us at USWP.
Job Titles:
- National Security Advisor, Obama Administration
General Jim Jones served as the National Security Adviser to President Obama from January 2009 to October 2010. Prior to that, General Jones was President and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Chamber Institute for 21st Century Energy. From July 1999 to January 2003, General Jones was the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps. After relinquishing command as Commandant, he assumed the positions of Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and commander of the U.S. European Command, positions he held until December 2006.
General Jones has served in a variety of command and staff positions while stationed in the United States, Europe, and Okinawa, Japan. In addition to combat experience in Vietnam, his deployment experiences included tours as commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq and Turkey and, after advancing to Brigadier General, as Chief of Staff of the Joint Task Force Provide Promise for operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. In addition to having been awarded national and international military awards, General Jones received an honorary doctorate of letters in 2002 from Georgetown University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- Managing Co - Founder, Water Finance Exchange
Hank Habicht co-founded the Water Finance Exchange in 2020, having served as a leader in many areas of environmental business and policy. His career in the environmental policy world has included leadership positions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Chief Operating Officer (Deputy Administrator) from 1989-1993. During his time with the EPA, he oversaw the development of innovative air and water programs to prevent pollution, including the Energy Star program and the implementation of market-based trading programs under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. He has also served at the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 1983-1987.
In business and investing, Mr. Habicht has served as Senior Vice President in charge of acquisitions and other divisions of Safety-Kleen, a billion-dollar environmental service company, and as Managing Partner of SAIL Capital Partners. He has also served as Vice President of William D. Ruckelshaus Associates, which co-managed the Environmental Venture Fund, one of the first successful green funds in the 1980s. As Co-Founder of Capital E, LLC, a strategic consultancy, he advised Fortune 100 and early stage ventures on sustainable growth strategies. He also previously served as CEO of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF). He also serves as an advisor to numerous technology companies, including SunToWater Technologies.
Mr. Habicht has held numerous Board seats over the years. Currently he serves on the Board of the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund www.shfund.org , as a Principal of Global Water 2020, on the Executive Committee of the US Water Partnership, Chairman Emeritus of the Board of WaterHealth International, and serves on the Board of the Global Water Challenge. He served as Commissioner of the National Commission on Energy Policy and as a Co-Founder of the American Council on Renewable Energy, has advised several Cabinet Secretaries and served on the Advisory Board to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in addition to his current service on the EED Directorate Advisory Committee to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
In 1991, the EPA awarded him with the Total Quality Leadership Award and in 2009 he received the national Richard Mellon Award for Environmental Stewardship. Mr. Habicht holds a bachelor's degree with High Honors from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
Job Titles:
- Project Co - Ordinator
- Project Coordinator for the U.S. Water Partnership
Joshua Boyce is a Project Coordinator for the U.S. Water Partnership (USWP), assisting in the execution of the US-ASEAN Water Smart Engagement (WiSE) program and the H2InfO knowledge platform.
With a decade of experience across start-ups, academia and non-profits, Joshua joined USWP in fall of 2020 as an intern before converting to project coordinator. As project coordinator, he will help manage the administrative requirements of the US-ASEAN WiSE program and grow the reach of H2InfO to new audiences.
Joshua holds a BSBA in Finance from Suffolk University and a Master's degree in International Environmental Policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has expertise in international water policy, urban climate adaptation, and project management.
Job Titles:
- Ambassador
- Chairman Emeritus, Stimson Center
Ambassador Bloomfield is Chairman Emeritus of the Stimson Center; a Board Member of the Global Environmental & Technology Foundation; a Director of The Last Kilometer, a Detroit non-profit supporting energy access for underdeveloped societies; and Vice Chairman of Mana Pacific, a Hawaii-based benefit corporation providing a platform for financing and project development of locally-owned and -controlled renewable energy microgrids in the Pacific Islands. He is President of Palmer Coates LLC; non-attorney consultant at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Principal Senior Advisor at C&O Resources, a Middle East policy advisory; Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors, a global strategic advisory to companies; and a principal with three companies developing technologies important to a sustainable future.
As an appointee in five previous Administrations, he was a Presidential Special Envoy, from 2008-2009, leading U.S. efforts to protect international aviation from shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, and Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs from 2001 to 2005, serving concurrently as the President's Special Representative on the landmine issue and head of the U.S. government's international outreach on critical infrastructure protection, including cybersecurity. He formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1992-1993); Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs (1991-2002); Member, U.S. Delegation to Philippine Bases Negotiations (1990-1991); Member, U.S. Water Mediation in the Middle East (1989-1990); and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1988-1989), with other U.S. Department of Defense policy positions dating from 1981.
A graduate of Harvard College (a.b. cum laude, 1974) and the Fletcher School (M.A.L.D., 1980), he is author or editor of two books and numerous policy articles.
Job Titles:
- Trustee, Kresge Foundation
From August 2009 through February 2013, Ms. Otero served as the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights. She oversaw U.S. foreign relations on the global spectrum of civilian security issues, including population, refugees, human trafficking, narcotics, global criminal justice and countering violent extremism. Ms. Otero also served as the President's Special Representative for Tibetan Issues.
Born in La Paz, Bolivia, Ms. Otero was formerly President and CEO of ACCION International, a leader in microfinance and economic development working in 26 countries. Prior to ACCION, where she worked for 23 years, Ms. Otero was the Economist for Latin America at the Women in Development office of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and she served for five years at the Centre for Development and Population Activities. She was an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School for Advanced International Studies before joining the State Department.
In 2000, President Bill Clinton appointed Otero to the board of the United States Institute of Peace, where she served for eight years. In 2006, she was appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan to the U.N. Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors. She has served on several nonprofit and corporate boards. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Job Titles:
- Foreign Service Officer With the U.S. Department of State
- International Advisor
- International Advisor to the U.S. Water Partnership
Nomi Seltzer serves as the International Advisor to the U.S. Water Partnership (USWP), mobilizing international engagement and cross-sector cooperation to address critical water challenges.
A Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, Nomi has over two decades of experience advancing international cooperation, crisis preparedness, and public outreach. She applies her expertise in forging partnerships between federal, state, and local government agencies and stakeholders from civil society, academia, the private sector, and indigenous communities to promote water security and resilience initiatives. She supports USWP programs on water, sanitation, and hygiene by fostering long-term relationships between leading U.S. and international water utilities, exchanges which encourage the sharing of innovative technologies and best practices for sustainable water management. Nomi also coordinates USWP activities on arid land management and drought resilience, and transboundary water solutions.
Prior to joining USWP, Nomi served as the Deputy Principal Officer and Consular Chief at the U.S. Consulate General in Tijuana, Mexico. Her previous assignments include Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Arctic Affairs Officer in the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, and Deputy Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, along with postings in Slovenia, Iraq, Hong Kong, Germany, the Philippines, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Nomi holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a M.S. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, a foreign policy expert and former diplomat specializing in national security affairs, is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Vice Chair of the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She brings over 30 years of government and international experience across senior levels of diplomacy, business and defense.
From 2010 - 2012, Ambassador Dobriansky was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Thomson Reuters. In this position, she was responsible for designing and implementing a corporate approach for engagement in Washington, D.C. and other key capitals around the globe and was instrumental in the development of their financial regulatory strategy. During this time, she was also appointed the Distinguished National Security Chair at the U.S. Naval Academy.
In February 2007, as the President's Envoy to Northern Ireland, she received the Secretary of State's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, for her contribution to the historic devolution of power in Belfast. Dobriansky has held many Senate-confirmed and senior level positions in the U.S. government including Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, the Reagan White House, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency.
From 1997- 2001, Ambassador Dobriansky served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations and was the first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies. During this time, she also served on the Presidentially-appointed U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Diplomacy, Ambassador Dobriansky served on the Defense Policy Board, the Secretary of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and as Chair of EXIM Bank's Council on China Competition (C4). She is a Trustee of the Trilateral Commission, on the Advisory Board of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, a Member of EXIM Bank's C4, and Chair of the Bush Center's Women's Initiative Policy Advisory Council. Previous boards include the Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Smith Richardson Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy (Vice Chair), George Mason University Board of Visitors and the World Affairs Councils of America as Chairman of the National Board.
Dobriansky received a B.S.F.S. summa cum laude in International Politics from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Soviet political/military affairs from Harvard University. She is a Fulbright Hays scholar, Ford and Rotary Foundation Fellow, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a recipient of various honors such as the Foreign Policy Association Medal for her service to country and leadership of the World Affairs Councils of America and the International Republican Institute's Women's Democracy Network Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Award (2008). She has received other high-level international recognition including the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland, Poland's Highest Medal of Merit, Grand Cross of Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, National Order "Star of Romania", Hungary's Commander's Cross Order of Merit, Ukraine's Order of Merit and Colombia's Comendador Medal. She has also received honorary degrees from Roger Williams University, American University, Flagler College, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Westminster College.
Job Titles:
- Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center
- US Secretary of State 's International Security Advisory Board
Sherri Goodman has a three-decade track record of leading, transforming and driving lasting results in organizations as both a board member and executive in international security, national defense, defense industry, foreign policy, energy, environment, critical infrastructure and scientific research organizations.
Sherri Goodman serves as Vice-Chair of the US Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board (ISAB). She is also the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security (IMCCS), representing over 40 military and national security organizations addressing the security risks of a changing climate. She is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, "threat multiplier," to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic.
She is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center's Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program, as well as a Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate & Security. Sherri serves on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Climate Change & Global Security.
Sherri chairs the Board of the Council on Strategic Risks and chairs the External Advisory Board on Energy and Homeland Security for Sandia National Laboratories. She serves on the Board of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Climate Council of the US EXIM Bank and on the National Academies' Advisory Board of the US Global Change Research Program. Sherri is a Board Director of the Atlantic Council and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Sherri is a member of the Joint Ocean Commission Leadership Initiative, co-chaired by former SECDEF Leon Panetta and former Governor and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitmer. Sherri served on the Independent Review Panel for the DOD Quadrennial Defense Review in 2010 co-chaired by former SECDEF Bill Perry and former National Security Advisory Stephen Hadley.
Sherri is the former President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. She served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA (US Center for Naval Analyses). She is the founder and Executive Director of the CNA Military Advisory Board, whose landmark reports include National Security and the Threat of Climate Change(2007), National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change (2014), and Advanced Energy and US National Security (2017) and The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict (2017) among others. The film The Age of Consequences in which Sherri is featured, is based on the work of the CNA Military Advisory Board.
Sherri served as the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), (1993-2001), where she was responsible for environmental, energy, safety and occupational health for the US Department of Defense. Sherri established the first environmental, safety and health performance metrics for the Department, and led its energy, environmental and natural resource conservation programs. Overseeing the President's plan for revitalizing base closure communities, she ensured that 80% of base closure property became available for transfer and reuse. She led the Secretary's Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation program which developed a container for storage of spent nuclear fuel for liquid waste from Russian nuclear submarines.
Sherri served on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee where she was responsible for oversight of the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex, including research and development of nuclear materials and national labs, and environmental cleanup and management. She has practiced law at Goodwin Procter, as both a litigator and environmental attorney, and has worked at RAND and SAIC.
Sherri has received numerous honors and awards, including an Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College in 2018, the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award in 1998 and 2001, the Gold Medal Award from the National Defense Industrial Organization in 1996, and the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Change Award in 2000.
Sherri has written a book, The Neutron Bomb Controversy: A Case Study in Alliance Politics, and authored dozens of reports and articles on a broad range of climate, energy, environmental and national security matters. She is a frequent presenter and lecturer to governments, private and public sector organizations, and academia. In recent years she has spoken at Harvard Kennedy School, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Middlebury College, Norwich University, University of Idaho, University of Arizona, Virginia Tech, and Georgetown University. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer in International Affairs and Security at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Sherri is currently writing Threat Multiplier: How the Military Got Educated on Climate Change.
A graduate of Amherst College, she has degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School.
WILLIAM K. REILLY served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1989 to 1993. He served as president and chairman of the board of World Wildlife Fund; president of The Conservation Foundation; and director of the Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth.
Mr. Reilly has chaired the boards of the Global Water Challenge, the Climate Works Foundation and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. He serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Water Partnership and the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His corporate board service has included DuPont, ConocoPhillips, Enviva Biomass, and Royal Caribbean. President Clinton appointed Mr. Reilly a founding Trustee of the Presidio Trust of San Francisco. President Obama appointed him co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Future of Offshore Drilling. For over 20 years he was a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, an international investment partnership, and the Founding Partner of Aqua International Partners. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University, a law degree from Harvard, and a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia University.