Frank Loy was Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from 1998 to 2001. His portfolio included human rights, the promotion of democracy, refugee issues, international law enforcement and counter-narcotics, and the environment. He served as chief U.S. climate negotiator. He was a senior official in the State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, and Director of the Office of Refugee Affairs. He served in the Obama Campaign as a co-leader of the Energy and Environment team. Formerly, he was president of The German Marshall Fund of the U.S. He has been chair of numerous non-profit boards, including the Environmental Defense Fund, and Resources for the Future. And serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy, EDF and a number of climate change-related organizations.“We have a number of problems, but two of them are war - we see that at the very moment - but the one that is relatively new, that we didn't have a word for it when I grew up, we certainly didn't understand when I grew up, is environmental consequences. And we have gone from not understanding that to understanding it pretty well, but having a difficult time responding appropriately to that threat.When I decided I would spend some time in the nonprofit sector, it was my wife who said, ‘Don't diddle around with a whole bunch of things, focus on something that you care about, and spend both time and your money on that.’ And so I picked the environment because it seemed to me it had a rather unusual and unique combination of social, economic, political, technical, and scientific elements to it that made it a really interesting complex issue.”· Environmental Defense Fund: www.edf.org · Resources for the Future: www.rff.org · The Nature Conservancy: www.nature.org/en-us/ · The German Marshall Fund of the U.S.: www.gmfus.orgBusiness & Society is a 10-episode limited series co-hosted by Bruce Piasecki & Mia Funk.