Renate Rennie is the president of the Tinker Foundation. She has been a member of the Inter-American Dialogue since 2010.
Rennie joined the Tinker Foundation in 1972. She was instrumental in creating and directing the Foundation’s early work on environmental issues in Latin America and Iberia as well working to include Antarctica within its geographical focus. Her interests also encompass policy issues of economic modernization, private sector involvement in Latin American environmental activities, and the reform of the Latin American judicial sector. Rennie became the Foundation’s executive in 1989, its president in 1996, and added the position of chairman in 2008 upon the retirement of Martha T. Muse.
Rennie is also a member of the boards of the Americas Society and the Spanish Institute. She serves on numerous committees with a focus on Latin America, including the advisory committees of the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Past appointments have included membership on the Botanical Science Committee of the New York Botanical Garden, the Kleinhans Fellowship Selection Committee of the Rainforest Alliance, the Advisory Committee of the Fellowship in International Development of the Partners of the Americas, and the American Council on Germany. Rennie also served for several years as the president of the Mexican Institute for Development.
Rennie graduated from SUNY Stony Brook with a BA and attended Baruch College for an MBA in international business.