WILLIAM K. REILLY

William Reilly assesses environmental impact of Kuwaiti oil fires, May 1991 (EPA Photo)
41. G.H.W. BUSH
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OVERVIEW:

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

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)