Jesse Huntley Ausubel is the Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University, where he has served on the faculty since 1989. Mr. Ausubel helped design and conduct major international programs, including the World Climate Program (1979), International Geosphere-Biosphere (Global Change) Program (1983), Census of Marine Life (2000), Barcode of Life Initiative (2002), Encyclopedia of Life (2006), Deep Carbon Observatory (2009), and International Quiet Ocean Experiment (2015). He helped found the field of industrial ecology. His affiliations include Resources for the Future, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Council on Foreign Relations, and American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is closely associated with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Richard Lounsbery Foundation, the first foundation to support Wikipedia.