Jamie Williams

Recognized for his outstanding work with the Land Trust Alliance, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Nature Conservancy, Jamie Williams was named president of the Wilderness Society in 2012. Before coming to The Wilderness Society, he served as director of landscape conservation for North America at the Nature Conservancy, where he led the organization’s effort to protect large landscapes and helped develop the large landscape focus within the Obama administration’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative. A strong believer in collaboration and community-based approaches to conservation, Williams is a founder of both the Montana Association of Land Trusts and the Heart of the Rockies Initiative, and he has served on the board of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts and as co-chair of the Yampa River System Legacy Project.