Bill Reilly

Senior Advisor, Texas Pacific Group

Bill Reilly brings decades of experience in environmentally and economically sound business practices to AgraQuest. The Architect for the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990, Reilly served as the head of the EPA from 1989-1993.

Reilly is a Senior Advisor to Texas Pacific Group's TPG Growth, an international investment partnership. He was a founding partner of Aqua International Partners, a private equity fund dedicated to investing in companies engaged in water and renewable energy. Reilly served as the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), President of the World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989), President of The Conservation Foundation (1973-1989) and past Chairman of the American Farmland Trust. He was head of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Earth Summit at Rio in 1992. Also in 1992, he was the primary mover behind the Montreal Protocol to phase out the global use of Methyl Bromide.

Reilly is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the World Wildlife Fund, Co-Chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy, Chair of the Advisory Board for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, Chair of the San Francisco Mayor's Clean Tech Advisory Council and a Director of DuPont, the Packard Foundation and the National Geographic Society,. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale, J.D. from Harvard and M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University.