Wynn Calder has been the associate director of ULSF since 1999. He became director in 2007 when ULSF ceased its affiliation with The Humane Society of the United States.

Calder is news editor for the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, review editor for the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, and has written extensively on the topic of education for sustainability. He was editor of the ULSF bi-annual report, The Declaration, from 1997 through 2005. He consults with K-12 and higher education institutions on education for sustainability. Mr. Calder was a co-founder and steering committee member of the U.S. Partnership of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). He serves on the advisory council of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education, which focuses on primary and secondary education, and he is on the senior council of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

In 2003, Calder began consulting with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) on sustainability and helped in the conception and launch of a major sustainabilitly initiative (go to http://www.nais.org and search for sustainability).

Prior to joining CRLE in 1996, Calder worked for six years at Harvard University in academic counseling, admissions and administration. For five summers between 1986 and 1992, he taught western philosophy to rising seniors at the Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program.

He received his Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School in 1993, where he focused on comparative religion and psychology. He received his undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University in 1984. He was an All-Ivy athlete in rowing, winning the U.S. Lightweight Championship Eights in 1982 and competing that year in England's Henley Royal Regatta.

Selected publications include:

Calder, Wynn, "The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: A Progress Report," in The Declaration, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2005.

Calder, Wynn and Clugston, Richard, “Education for a Sustainable Future” (Editorial), in Journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 29, No. 1, Routledge Publishing, March 2005.

Calder, Wynn and Clugston, Richard, “Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina’s Sustainable Universities Initiative,” in Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Problematics, Promise, and Practice, Peter Blaze Corcoran and Arjen E.J. Wals, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, 2004.

Calder, Wynn and Clugston, Richard, “International Efforts to Promote Higher Education for Sustainable Development,” in “Planning for Higher Education,” Journal of the Society for College and University Planning, Spring 2003.

Calder, Wynn and Clugston, Richard, “Higher Education,” in Stumbling Toward Sustainability, John C. Dernbach, Ed., Environmental Law Institute: Washington, DC, 2002. Also published as an article entitled “Progress Toward Sustainability in Higher Education” in The Environmental Law Reporter: News & Analysis, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, Environmental Law Institute, January 2003.