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Co-founder and Chair Emeritus, The AES Corporation
Roger Sant is the co-founder and Chair Emeritus of The AES Corporation; a Fortune 200 company that generates and distributes electrical power worldwide.
Before establishing AES in 1981, he was a lecturer in Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, served as the Assistant Administrator for Energy Conservation and the Environment at the U.S. Federal Energy Administration, and directed the Energy Productivity Center at the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mr. Sant is co-founder and Chair of The Summit Foundation, co-founder and Chair of the Matsui Foundation, a member of the board of Nia Tero, and serves on the advisory boards of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, National Symphony Orchestra, Stanford Advisory Council for the Natural Capital Project, and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas Initiative. He is also a member of the Chancellor’s Board of Advisors at the University of California, Davis.
He is a Regent Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution and served as its first Chair. He is also Chair Emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund – U.S., an Emeritus Board Member of the World Resources Institute, and he formerly served on the PBS Foundation Board.
In addition to being Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of the AES Corporation, he previously served on the corporate Boards of Marriott International, Thermo Electron, and Finnegan Instruments.
Mr. Sant earned a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He is a co-author of Creating Abundance: America’s Least-Cost Energy Strategy (McGraw-Hill, 1982).
He is married to California Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui, who has represented Sacramento and its surrounding areas since 2005 (CA-7).