Leakey Foundation

Leakey Foundation

"The mission of the Leakey Foundation is to increase scientific knowledge and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival.

"Inspired by the interpretations of human evolution proposed by Dr. Louis Leakey, one of the past century's great anthropologists, several individuals founded the Leakey Foundation in 1968 to support his fieldwork and scientific priorities. Within its first decade of existence, the Leakey Foundation provided grants to many of the seminal studies that inform our understanding of human prehistory such as the field research and discoveries of Louis, Richard and Mary Leakey, Don Johanson, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas."


 * Former Deputy Director, Deborah Spies

Trustees
Accessed November 2007:
 * Gordon P. Getty - Chairman of the Board, San Francisco, CA
 * William M. Wirthlin II - President, Salt Lake City, UT
 * Alice M. Corning - Secretary, Mill Valley, CA
 * Don Dana - Vice President and Grants Committee Chair, San Francisco, CA
 * C. Paul Johnson - Vice President, Development Committee Chair, Napa, CA
 * William P. Richards, Jr. - Treasurer, Pasadena, CA
 * Owen P. O'Donnell - Governance & Audit Committee Chair, San Francisco, CA
 * Mason Phelps - Investment Committee Chair, La Jolla, CA
 * Camilla Smith - Communications & Public Outreach Committee Chair, San Francisco, CA
 * Cole Thomson - Finance Committee Chair, Houston, Texas
 * Hernan Buchi - Trustee, Santiago, Chile
 * Nina Carroll - Trustee, San Francisco, CA
 * Joan C. Donner - Colorado Springs, CO
 * Carolyn Farris - Trustee, La Jolla, CA
 * Michael Gallagher - Trustee, San Francisco, CA
 * Clark Howell - Trustee & SEC Emeritus, Berkeley, CA
 * Mark Jordan - Trustee, Corona Del Mar, California
 * Julie LaNasa - Trustee, Sausalito, CA
 * Diana McSherry - Trustee, Houston, TX
 * Robert Muehlhauser - Trustee, Pleasanton, CA
 * Jeanne Newman - Trustee, San Francisco, CA
 * Joy Sterling - Trustee, Sebastopol, CA
 * Naoma Tate - Trustee, Salt Lake City, UT
 * Lawrence Barker - Life Trustee, Burlingame, CA
 * Robert Beck - Life Trustee, Fallbrook, CA
 * Fleur Cowles - Life Trustee, London, England
 * Philae Dominick - Life Trustee, Denver, CO
 * Richard Leakey - Life Trustee, Nairobi, Kenya
 * Edwin Munger - Life Trustee, Pasadena, CA
 * Barry H. Sterling - Life Trustee, Sebastopol, CA
 * Arnold Travis - Life Trustee, Los Angeles, CA
 * Kay Harrigan Woods - Life Trustee, San Francisco, CA
 * Frank Montgomery Woods - Life Trustee, San Francisco, CA

Life Trustees
Accessed March 2010:


 * Joan C. Donner
 * Robert Beck
 * Philae Dominick
 * Richard Leakey
 * Edwin Munger
 * Nancy Pelosi
 * Barry H. Sterling
 * Arnold Travis
 * Frank Montgomery Woods
 * Kay Harrigan Woods

Scientific Advisory Committee
Accessed November 2007:
 * Francis Brown - Co-Chairman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
 * Richard G. Klein - Co-Chairman, Stanford University, CA
 * John G. Fleagle - State University of New York, Stony Brook
 * Alexander H. (Sandy) Harcourt - University of California, Davis
 * Kristen Hawkes - University of Utah, Salt Lake City
 * Meave Leakey - National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi
 * Carel Van Schaik - University of Zurich

Contact

 * Web: http://www.leakeyfoundation.org

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Paddy Moore-Goodhart
 * Irven DeVore