Roger Sant

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Mr. Roger Sant serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Summit Charitable Foundation. He serves as Board Member at World Wildlife Fund. Mr. Sant is the Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chairperson of the Board of Trustees at the Sant Foundation. He is co-founder and chairman emeritus of The AES Corporation. Before starting AES in 1981, Sant was an assistant administrator for Energy Conservation and the Environment at the Federal Energy Administration. He was also the director of the Energy Productivity Center, an energy research organization affiliated with the Mellon Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was chair of WWF-US from 1994 to 2000, and co-chair from 2009 to 2011. He is a regent emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, having served as its first chairman. He is a member of the boards of the National Symphony Orchestra, the National Museum of Natural History, and the World Resources Institute. He was a member of the board of directors of Marriott International from 1994 to 2006. Sant received a BS 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 (1982).