Catherine Cooke

Catherine Nixon Cooke spent the past three years as President and CEO of The Mountain Institute, an international non-profit organization with headquarters in Washington, DC, and 8 field offices in the Andes, the Himalayas, and Appalachia. She oversaw a worldwide staff that includes anthropologists, archaeologists, forestry experts, geographers, hydrologists, and enterprise specialists. Conservation, cultural preservation, and economic development projects currently operate in Peru, Ecuador, India, Nepal, Tibet Autonomous Region of China, and the United States. In January, 2005, she retired as the organization’s CEO but remains on its Board of Trustees and maintains close contact with its staff and worldwide operations.

Ms. Cooke serves as a Board member of The Mountain Institute (Washington, DC), a Board member of The Mountain Forum (Nepal), a founding member of the International Mountain Partnership (Rome, Italy), and a Lifetime Trustee of the San Antonio Medical Foundation (San Antonio, Texas).