
Neil Hawkins
President
Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation
Neil Hawkins is president of the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation and former chief sustainability officer of Dow. A recognized thought leader, he is the architect of several groundbreaking collaborations, including the Dow-Nature Conservancy Collaboration on valuing nature in business decisions. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Policy and Global Affairs of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), through which he co-authored "Sustainability and the U.S. EPA," commonly known as the Green Book. He holds a master’s and Sc.D. from the Harvard University School of Public Health.