Eugene William Stetson III is an American businessman, film producer and environmental policy advisor to numerous entrepreneurial, not-for-profit and political organizations.
[4] He directed the Vermont and New Hampshire operations of the Connecticut River Watershed Council, and served as a supervisor of the Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District (U.S. Department of Agriculture).
[7] Stetson has served as an environmental policy advisor to numerous political campaigns, including the Presidential campaigns of Senator Gary Hart (D-CO), Representative Dick Gephardt (D-MO), Governor Howard Dean (D-VT), Senator John Kerry (D-MA), and Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR).
With its endowment of over $800 million, the SRF remains one of the most prominent domestic and foreign policy funders, awarding grants to major think tanks and university research centers across the United States.
Stetson also is a Trustee to the Grace Jones Richardson Trust, which make grants in the areas of arts, education, and health & human services, and the H. Smith Richardson Testamentary Trust, which controls significant assets including 6,000 acres (24 km2) of protected land in the North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains.
He has produced What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library;[15] Citizen Suits (for The Creative Coalition) starring Alec Baldwin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; Environmental Insight, an environmental radio talk show at Dartmouth College; and A Closer Walk, an AIDS documentary for PBS, directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Bilheimer and narrated by Glenn Close and Will Smith.