Leslie Carothers currently serves as the President of the Environmental Law Institute. She retired from United Technologies Corporation where she served for 11 years as Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S). As Vice President, she was responsible for worldwide EH&S policy and oversight of EH&S operations involving over 200 manufacturing facilities and 160,000 employees. Earlier in her career, she was part of the EPA team that wrote the first rules cutting the use of lead in gasoline and successfully defended the rules in court. In 1976, she was appointed Enforcement Director and then Deputy regional Administrator for EPA’s New England Region. From 1987-1991, she served as Commissioner of Environment for the State of Connecticut in the administration of Governor William O’Neill.