Manish Bapna

Manish Bapna is president and C.E.O. of the Natural Resources Defense Council. An economist by training, he got his start at McKinsey & Company and the World Bank, before pursuing a career in advocacy at the Bank Information Center, a small nonprofit. Most recently, he was executive vice president and managing director of the World Resources Institute. He has master’s degrees in business and political and economic development from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from M.I.T.