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Jack - Vanderryn
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Senior Fellow, Enviroment and Development
Moriah Fund
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Board Member
Center for Internaional Environmental Law
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Board Member
Endangered Species Coalition
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Board Member
Institute for Conservation Leadership
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Board Member
Forest Stewardship Council
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Biography
Jack Vanderryn is a graduate of Lehigh University, obtaining a B.A. in 1951, M.S. in Chemistry 1952, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1955. He was an assistant professor of chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic University from 1955 to 1958 when he joined the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in Oak Ridge, TN as a chemist, monitoring the research and development programs at the Oak Ridge Naional Laboratory. In 1962 he became the technical advisor to the USAEC Assistant General Manager for Research and Development in Washington, DC with oversight responsibilities for all of the AEC's R&D programs and all of its national laboratories. From 1967 to 1971 he was detailed to the US Department of State and was technical advisor to the US Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria where he participated in the formulation of the intrnational nuclear inspection system of the IAEA. Upon his return the the US with the AEC and its successor agencies - the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the the Department of Energy (DOE), he managed several energy r&d programs, helped initiate solar and geothermal r&d activities, and eventually oordinated all of DOEs energy research and development collaboration with other nations, including the Soviet Union, Japan, Germany, and other industrialized nations and helped establish the R&D committee of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Parisand its progarms of international cooperation n energy research and development. In 1981 Dr. Vanderyn joined the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as Agency Director for Energy and Natural Resources, providing assistance to developing countries in developing energy and environmental programs. In 1991 he retired from the federal government and joined The Moriah Fund, a private family foundation in Washington, DC as program director for environment. He served from 1997-2000 as president of the Consultative Group on Biodiversity (CGBD), a group of more than fifty private foundations promoting biodiversity conservation. He retired from the Moriah Fund on January 1, 2006 and now serves on the boards of a number of environmental NGOs.
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