CEO
Daphne Wysham is the Chief Executive Officer of Methane Action. For 20 years, Daphne was a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, DC, where she founded and directed their climate justice program and served on the executive committee of the board of directors. Her team’s groundbreaking research drew attention to the disproportionate ratio […]
Legal and Governance Advisor
John MacKnight Fitzgerald coordinates the legal and governmental strategy for Methane Action. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, John worked in Congress as a legislative aide to help strengthen Superfund and staff the Congressional Solar Energy Caucus. As Counsel to a House Subcommittee, he helped strengthen the Ethics in Government Act and sparked and […]
Science Advisor
Renaud de Richter is a scientific advisor to Methane Action. Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Renaud has lived in France since 1973, and graduated from the organic chemistry department of the engineering school of chemistry of Montpellier, France in 1985 with a Master’s degree in chemistry. His PhD thesis was on organoborane asymmetric synthesis. Renaud […]
Chair, Board of Advisors
Peter Jenkins is Chair of the Methane Action advisory board. He has been an environmental, land use, consumer, and personnel law attorney and advocate since 1983. He currently is Senior Counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) in Silver Spring, Maryland. His career has centered on bringing the best science to bear in environmental […]
Vice Chair, Secretary, Board of Advisors
Sara Radcliffe is Vice Chair and Secretary of the Board of Advisors of Methane Action, and a nationally recognized expert on the impact of changes in regulatory, scientific, and reimbursement policy on the life sciences industry. She has played a prominent role in public debates regarding the science-based FDA approval of new drugs, optimization of […]
Member, Board of Advisors
Heather McGeory, a Member of the Board of Advisors of Methane Action, is a collaborative leader with over 20 years of experience working on climate change issues with business, governments, foundations, non-profits and multilateral institutions through the enablers of communications, campaigns, finance, policy and philanthropy. She has worked to create successful projects and partnerships in […]
Member, Board of Advisors
Dr. Rob Jackson is a member of the advisory board of Methane Action, and Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University. He and his lab examine the many ways people affect the Earth. They seek basic scientific […]
Member, Board of Advisors
Durwood Zaelke is an Advisory Board Member of Methane Action, and the founder and President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) in Washington, DC and Paris, focusing on fast mitigation strategies that avoid maximum warming over the critical next decade in order to slow climate feedbacks and avoid irreversible tipping points. IGSD’s strategies include reducing short-lived super climate pollutants […]
Member, Board of Advisors
Sophie Gallois is harnessing everything she has learned in a leadership career that spans global brands and charities, including Unicef UK, to the service of climate action. She is a trustee and advisor for several carbon removal NGOs. She is CEO and co-founder of The Climate Agency, a non-profit marketing strategy consultancy dedicated to helping […]
Member, Board of Advisors
Solomon Goldstein-Rose has been a climate activist since age 11. His education in engineering and public policy gave him a unique perspective on the intersection of what physically has to happen to solve climate change and what approaches might actually make it happen. Solomon ran for the Massachusetts state legislature at age 22 and got […]