+ SCIENCE: PHYSICS, COSMOLOGY, MATHEMATICS +

As director of international media relations and public affairs for the Templeton Prize, Lehr has worked with some of the leading scientists of our time including:

John Barrow, mathematician, cosmologist,University of Cambridge

Paul Davies, physicist, author, Arizona StateUniversity

Freeman Dyson, theoretical physicist, Institutefor Advanced Study, Princeton

Marcelo Gleiser, physicist and cosmologist,Dartmouth College

Martin Rees,theoretical astrophysicist, University of Cambridge

+ RELIGION: FAITH LEADERS, PHILOSOPHERS, THEOLOGIANS +

Lehr has worked with some of the most influential spiritual leaders, philosophers, and theologians of our time including:

The Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader

Msgr. Prof. Tomáš Halík, priest, philosopher and adviser to former Czech president Václav Havel

Holmes Rolston III, philosopher, environmental ethics, Colorado State University

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

Charles Taylor, philosopher, McGill University, author of The Secular Age

Desmond Tutu, former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa

Jean Vanier, the late founder of L'Arche

+ ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL CAMPAIGNING AND POLICY ANALYSIS +

Lehr serves as advisor and communications consultant for more than 30 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are affiliated with CLARA, the Climate Land Ambition & Rights Alliance, which includes climate justice advocates, faith groups, conservation groups, land-rights campaigners, agroecologists, and representatives of people’s movements around the globe. CLARA lobbies to protect forests and communities, restore ecosystems and food systems, and find ambitious pathways to respond to climate change rooted in social justice and agroecology.

He also works with the Switzerland-based Fondation Franz Weber, campaigning for the survival of the African elephant and a total ban on all trade in elephant ivory at the international negotiations of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

+ ENVIRONMENT: ACADEMIA AND FAITH-BASED LEADERSHIP +

Lehr has served since 1989 as a communications advisor for the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University and has participated in several of its conferences since it was founded after the landmark Religions of the World and Ecology conference series at Harvard in 1988-1989. The conferences involved the direct participation and collaboration of some eight hundred scholars, religious leaders and environmental specialists from around the world.

He also developed and implemented communications strategies for climate ethicist Don Brown at the Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change at Penn State University (now at Widener University), and for the Australian Koala Foundation, Brisbane.