Mike Baldwin
Director at Large
Mike Baldwin serves as chair emeritus and past board chair of the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and an emeritus board member and past president of the “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society, the Friends of the Refuge group that supports the J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, FL. He has also served as co-chair of the Everglades
Coalition, an alliance of local, state and national conservation organizations dedicated to full restoration of the greater Everglades ecosystem.
Mike retired in 1999 as vice-president, technology support, for Millennium Petrochemical after a 31-year career in the chemical industry. He served as a
member of the senior management team of Millennium and, in prior years, of Dow Chemical Canada and Dow Chemical Latin America. He subsequently, and until year-end 2013, acted as a management consultant on improving safety and environmental performance in the chemical and energy industries.
Mike holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield (England) and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Alberta (Canada). Having lived in Sanibel for twenty years, he and his wife, Terry, relocated in 2019 tp the nearby Shell Point Retirement Community in Fort Myers.