Denis Hayes

Denis Hayes is president of the Bullitt Foundation, an environmental philanthropy located in Seattle. A former trustee of Stanford University, Hayes has worked as an adjunct professor of engineering at Stanford, adjunct professor of Energy & Resources at the University of California, attorney with Cooley Godward in Silicon Valley, visiting scholar at the Smithsonian, and director of the federal National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  National Coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970, Hayes still chairs the board of the International Earth Day Network, which now involves 184 nations.  He also chairs the board of trustees of the American Solar Energy Society, and is a past chair of the board of the Energy Foundation.  A recipient of a national Jefferson Medal for the Greatest Public Service by an Individual under 35 (1979) and of the John Muir Award by the Sierra Club, Hayes also was selected by Time Magazine as a “Hero of the Planet” in 1999.