WILLIAM K. REILLY

41. G.H.W. BUSH
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BORN:
January 26, 1940;
Decatur, Illinois

EDUCATION:
Yale University (BA)
Harvard University (LLB)
Columbia University (MUP)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican

HIGHLIGHTS:
1965:

Attorney, Ross, Hardies, O’Keefe, Babcock and Parsons
1966-1967:
U.S. Army Captain
1968-1970:
Associate Director, Urban Policy Center, Urban America, Inc. and the National Urban Coalition
1970-1972:
Senior Staff Member, President’s Council on Environmental Quality
1972-1973:
Executive Director, Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth
1973-1974
Visiting Professor, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University
1973-1989
President, The Conservation Foundation
1985-1989
President, World Wildlife Fund
1989-1993:
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator 
1993:
Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund
1997–2009
Founding partner of Aqua International Partners
1994-2017:
Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, LP
2010-2011:
Chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

EPA Administrator William K. Reilly assesses environmental damage of oil fires set by Iraqi forces in Kuwait in 1991 (EPA Photo)

PORTRAIT:

EPA Photo

 

RESOURCES:

EPA Administrator William Reilly, Secretary of Energy James Watkins, and Vice President Dan Quayle watch as President  George H.W. Bush signs the Clean Air Act Amendments on 11/15/1990 (White House Photo by Carol T. Powers)

Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Biography
EPA Oral History
EPA Journal
World Wildlife Fund
American University
Website
Wikipedia

MEDIA COVERAGE:

President Bush, Russell Train, Senator John Chafee and the Reilly family at William Reilly’s swearing-in on Feb. 8, 1989 (EPA Photo)

Nomination, 12/23/1988 (NYT, WP)