Chesapeake Bay Foundation Chooses New President And CEO

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation announced a caller president and main enforcement serviceman connected Monday.

Hilary Harp Falk, who has served arsenic the National Wildlife Federation’s main programme officer, volition commencement arsenic the foundation’s caller main connected Jan. 3.

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Falk, who lives successful Annapolis, Maryland, volition regenerate William Baker, who has been president and CEO of the instauration since 1981 and is retiring.

“Today, we basal astatine a crossroads for Bay restoration,” Falk said successful a statement. “Finishing the enactment of Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint by 2025 and leaving a restored Bay to our children and grandchildren is possible. But it is not certain. I americium humbled and honored to present beryllium charged with starring this prestigious institution.”

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At the National Wildlife Federation, Falk led and integrated each nationalist and determination programs portion serving arsenic strategical advisor to the CEO. Before that, Falk held the presumption of NWF vice president for determination conservation, wherever she was liable for starring the organization’s 7 determination offices.

She besides served arsenic NWF’s determination enforcement manager for the mid-Atlantic and manager of the Choose Clean Water Coalition, creating a conjugation of much than 200 advocacy organizations to support and reconstruct the Chesapeake Bay.

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