Linda Greer is a Ph.D. environmental toxicologist serving as a Senior Global Fellow for the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, a Skoll awardee and leading environmental NGO in China. She is focusing on increasing corporate oversight and responsibility for the environmental impacts of their suppliers abroad. Prior to this, Linda directed work on toxic chemical pollution with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), one of the largest environmental groups in North America, for nearly 30 years.
Over the course of her career, Linda has focused on innovative environmental government policy approaches to reduce industrial impacts, with emphasis on air and water pollution, as well as voluntary corporate sustainability programs. She has spearheaded the advocacy community’s efforts to improve U.S. toxic chemical legislation, led a large and successful collaborative pollution prevention project with the Dow Chemical Company, and directed NRDC’s participation in a CEO-level multi-stakeholder negotiation on the future of the Superfund hazardous waste cleanup program.
Linda’s focus over the past decade has been international. Focusing first on mercury pollution, she was a founder and leader of the NGO’s community’s successful effort to pass the Minamata Convention in the United Nations, a binding international agreement to reduce the use and release of this toxic metal around the globe. Subsequently, Linda created NRDC’s Clean by Design Program, a business-friendly green supply chain initiative that that leverages production efficiency improvements to significantly reduce the energy, water, and chemical use in textile manufacturing while saving money.
Linda has served on many expert panels, commissions, and boards, including the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the Executive Committee of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board and has testified before the U.S. Congress more than a dozen times.
