People Profiles

Learn how specific individuals are influencing public policy. Each profile below is carefully curated by an InfluenceWatch contributor, and includes funding data where appropriate.

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Jodie Evans

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Criminal Justice Policy, Drug Policy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, Healthcare Policy

Jodie Evans is the co-founder of the controversial far-left anti-war organization CODEPINK, a political activist, and an author. She has defended anti-U.S. insurgents during the…

Ted Turner

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III was a billionaire media proprietor, conservationist, and philanthropist best known as the founder of CNN, the first 24-hour cable news…

Roger Waters

Activist, Other, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy

Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism,…

Tom Steyer

Activist, Donor, Environmental Policy

Thomas Fahr “Tom” Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire turned climate-change activist, and major political donor to environmental causes and Democrats advocating an environmentalist agenda…

Larry Fink

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)

C. Frederick Taylor

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

C. Frederick Taylor (Fred Taylor) is a reclusive California billionaire and one of three founders of the TGS Management hedge fund. In July 2023 the…

James Murdoch

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy

James Murdoch is the former chairman of 21st Century Fox and the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Unlike his conservative father, James is a…

John Chevedden

Activist, Other, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)

John Chevedden is a private investor and shareholder activist known for his prolific filing of corporate shareholder proposals under Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule…

Susan Mandel

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy

Susan Mandel is a philanthropist and the wife of hedge fund billionaire Stephen Mandel. They are both co-trustees of the Zoom Foundation and are major…

John Rutherford Seydel III

Board Member or Executive, Environmental Policy

John Rutherford Seydel III is the oldest grandson of media mogul Ted Turner, the founder of CNN. He holds positions with a variety of non-profit…

Nathaniel Simons

Donor, Environmental Policy

Also see Sea Change Foundation (Nonprofit)

Ben Walton

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy, Healthcare Policy

Ben Walton is a left-of-center philanthropist and businessman based in Denver, Colorado. He is the grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton.

Susan Pritzker

Activist, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), LGBT Policy

Susan Pritzker is a philanthropist, feminist, and political activist focused on left-of-center issues and redistribution of wealth. She married Nicholas Pritzker, a member of the…

Audrey Cappell

Board Member or Executive, Environmental Policy, LGBT Policy

Audrey Cappell is the founder of Foundation for a Just Society (FJS), a left-of-center organization which makes grants to smaller LGBT and feminist advocacy organizations…

Drummond Pike

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Environmental Policy, Immigration Policy, Labor Policy

Drummond McGavin Pike is an American businessman, philanthropist, and left-of-center political activist. He is notable for founding a number of organizations that promote and fund…

Christopher Hohn

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Abortion Policy, Environmental Policy

Christopher Hohn is an English hedge-fund manager and billionaire environmentalist who had an estimated net worth of $9.2 billion as of 2025.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Politician, Environmental Policy, Multi-Issue Advocacy

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as “AOC,” is a Democratic politician and a leader of the left wing of the House Democratic Caucus. In 2018, she…

Fred Eychaner

Donor, Environmental Policy, LGBT Policy

Fred Eychaner is an American entrepreneur and political donor. In 1971, he founded Newsweb Corporation, which prints a variety of newspapers. He is president of…

Jeff Bezos

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Economic Policy, Education Policy, Environmental Policy

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon and was estimated by Forbes to be the richest person in the world as of March,…

Alan M. Parker

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy

Alan M. Parker is a British businessman and major support of left-of-center environmentalist projects and the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative. Parker made…

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