Roger Sant is the co-founder and Chair Emeritus of The AES Corporation, a Fortune 200 company renowned for generating and distributing electrical power worldwide. Before establishing AES in 1981, he served as the Assistant Administrator for Energy Conservation and the Environment at the Federal Energy Administration. Additionally, he was the Director of the Energy Productivity Center, an energy research organization associated with the Mellon Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and a lecturer in finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

As the co-founder and Chair of The Summit Foundation, Roger has made significant contributions to various organizations. He was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution from 2001 to 2013 and served as its first Board Chair. His board memberships include Nia Tero, the World Resources Institute, the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., and the PBS Foundation. He is also part of the advisory boards for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Stanford Advisory Council for the Natural Capital Project, and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas initiative. Previously, he served on the Marriott International Board of Directors from 1994 to 2006.

Roger earned a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He is a co-author of Creating Abundance: America’s Least-Cost Energy Strategy (McGraw-Hill, 1982). He is married to Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui, who has represented Sacramento and its surrounding areas since 2005 (CA-7).