Governance and Funding
Board of Directors
SRM360 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organisation. The Board of Directors will have legal and fiduciary responsibility for oversight of SRM360.
SRM360’s Board of Directors draws upon a wealth of experience in climate diplomacy, communications, academia, nonprofit management, and frontier technologies.
Dakota Gruener (Secretary) leads Reflective, which aims to equip the world with the data and tools needed to make informed decisions about SRM. She also designed, led, and built ID2020, which became the leading standards-setting organisation for privacy-protecting digital identity systems, and served as aide-de-camp to the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Mark Hilton (Chair) is a highly experienced leader in the charity and public sectors, working both in the UK and internationally. He is currently Executive Director at the International Psychoanalytical Association. He previously served on the Degrees Initiative Board of Trustees and was Director of Operations and also Director of Programmes for the Elders Foundation, where he worked on their climate change mitigation programme.
George Marshall is a specialist in climate change communications. In 2004, he founded the Oxford-based nonprofit Climate Outreach, and his clients have included many of the world’s largest environmental organisations, the UN, the World Bank, and more than 20 governments. He is the author of Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change.
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the global leader of Climate and Energy at WWF and interim chair of the IUCN Climate Crisis Commission. He served as Minister of the Environment of Peru from 2011 to 2016 and as President of the Twentieth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP20) in 2014.
Jesse Reynolds (Treasurer) is Chief of Staff at the Degrees Initiative, an NGO dedicated to putting the Global South at the centre of the SRM conversation, and previously served as executive secretary of the Climate Overshoot Commission. He is the author of the 2019 book The Governance of Solar Geoengineering: Managing Climate Change in the Anthropocene.
And we thank Board alumni Larry Birenbaum and James Lawler for their previous leadership.
Funding
SRM360 does not represent the interests of any government, corporation, or interest group, and does not accept any funding which compromises the independence of the information and analysis it shares.
SRM360 is supported by
The LAD Climate Fund advocates for objective research in the science and governance of sunlight reflection methods (SRM), as part of a comprehensive climate strategy that includes emissions mitigation, adaptation, and carbon dioxide removal. The fund is led by Andrew Verhalen, Larry Birenbaum, and David Schwartz, former technology entrepreneurs now dedicated to this cause.
Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF) is an independent charitable foundation established in 2019 by the founders of Quadrature Capital. QCF funds work across climate, poverty, inequality and human security, supporting work that strengthens communities today to enable a greener and fairer tomorrow.
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust is a progressive family foundation guided by the values of its founders. The Trust advocates for social change that promotes human dignity and contributes to a more just, democratic, and environmentally sustainable world.
The Navigation Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization seeking to advance bold solutions to the world’s most urgent problems. Their founding endowment was gifted by Jed McCaleb. The Navigation Fund offers grants to high-impact organizations and projects that are taking bold action and making significant changes in Open Science, Farm Animal Welfare, Transforming Criminal Justice, and Climate Change.