Rhea Suh
President
NRDC
Rhea Suh became president of the Natural Resources Defense Council in January 2015, leading the nearly 500 scientists, attorneys and policy experts that make NRDC one of the country’s most effective environmental action organizations.
Before joining NRDC, Suh served as the assistant secretary for policy, management and budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior. She was nominated for the position by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2009.
Suh earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Barnard College and received a Fulbright Fellowship to research environmental movements in Seoul. She returned to the States and worked as a senior legislative assistant to Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, then earned a master’s degree in education, administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University.
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