Board Member: Leslie Carothers

Leslie Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute

Leslie Carothers is President of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), an independent, non-partisan education and policy research center focused on advancing environmental protection by improving law, policy and management. ELI publishes the Environmental Law Reporter; the Environmental Forum, a policy journal; and the National Wetlands Newsletter.

Before her election as ELI president in June, 2003, she served for 11 years as Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety at United Technologies Corporation (UTC) a multi-national aerospace and building systems company. She also served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection from 1987-1991 and Senior Environmental Counsel for PPG Industries from 1982-1987. She began her environmental career with the federal Environmental Protection Agency in the air pollution program in Washington in 1971 and later served as Enforcement Director, Deputy Regional Administrator, and Acting Regional Administrator of EPA’s New England Region in Boston. She is a graduate of Smith College and Harvard Law School and also holds a Masters Degree in environmental law from George Washington University. In 1991, she was an adjunct lecturer on environmental regulation at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.