Everything about William K Reilly totally explained
William K. Reilly (born
January 26,
1940) was a former administrator of the
EPA and has been a director of
DuPont since 1993.
Born in
Decatur, Illinois, into a conservative, deeply religious household, Reilly was strongly influenced by his father, a highway construction steel merchant. Reilly's father then led his family from Illinois to
South Texas when William Reilly was 10. From the
Rio Grande Valley, the Reillys moved to
Fall River, Massachusetts, where he finished high school at
Durfee High School. From Durfee he went on to
Yale where he earned a B.A. in History. During his Yale years, Reilly took advantage of Yale's junior year abroad program to study in
France. Reilly then earned a law degree from
Harvard, completing a thesis on land reform in
Chile. After law school, Reilly entered the
Army and served a tour of duty (1966-1967) in Europe with an intelligence unit planning for the evacuation of U.S. troops from France. During that time, he married Elizabeth Buxton.
After completing his military service, Reilly returned to school at
Columbia University, where he earned a Masters degree in urban planning. In 1968, fresh from planning school and a four month project in
Turkey, Reilly went to work for
Urban America, Inc., where he worked to integrate century old concerns for urban beautification with the concerns brought to the forefront of the American conscience by the civil rights movement - concerns which would grow into the environmental justice movement with which he dealt during his EPA Administration.
In 1970, Reilly became a senior staff member of the
President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under
Russell Train, who would later become the second EPA Administrator in 1972. Reilly moved from CEQ to become President of
The Conservation Foundation, which merged with
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in 1985. After the merger, he served as President of World Wildlife Fund until taking over as administrator at the EPA in 1989. After leaving the Agency during the final days of 1992, Reilly returned to World Wildlife Fund.
Mr. Reilly is founding partner of
Aqua International Partners, L.P., a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy. He formerly served as administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, the Payne visiting professor at the Institute for International Studies at
Stanford University, president of the
World Wildlife Fund and
The Conservation Foundation. Mr. Reilly is a director of
ConocoPhillips,
Royal Caribbean International, the
Packard Foundation, and the
American Academy in Rome. He also serves as chairman of the board of the World Wildlife Fund, co-chair of the
National Commission on Energy Policy, and chair of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at
Duke University.
Mr. Reilly currently is affiliated with the Texas Pacific Group, a private equity firm based in Ft. Worth, Texas. As a key player in the TXU leveraged buyout announced in February, 2007, he's been instrumental in negotiations with TXU Corporation with regard to improving the environmental air quality standards for the proposed construction of three new coal-fired electric power generation plants, which has been a high profile issue in the Texas media (Dallas Morning News).
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