Rena Shulsky David Bio

Rena Shulsky David is president and CEO of Shire Realty, a New York City real estate firm that specializes in sustainable development and management of commercial property. She is a former Development Manager for the City of Boston, appointed by the mayor to manage the redevelopment and revitalization of several of Boston's hardest hit neighborhoods.

Ms. David is the founder of Green Seal and serves on its Board of Directors. Green Seal is the first and the most widely respected environmental seal of approval. Green Seal now appears on major cities, hotel chains and products as well as companies around the world.

She serves on the Advisory Board of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence. ICSR has been called by Peter Bergen, CNN's expert on terrorism, "the single most effective organization working against the spread of global terrorism". Along with her husband, Dr. Sami S. David, she recently helped sponsor a major ICSR event in New York. The conference brought together representatives of governments from around the world to foster cooperation and share information that will help eliminate the threat of international terrorism.

As Soviet Communism was collapsing, Rena Shulsky David founded and chaired the legendary 'Swords into Plowshares' conference. At the time, the conference marked the first face-to-face meeting of the heads of the Soviet military with their counterpart heads of the American military since World War II. Held at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in Cambridge, Mass., among the conference's sponsors were the Arms Control and Disarmament Division at MIT, and the Institute for US and Canada Studies of The Council of Ministers of the USSR. For her work in the creation of the conference, the Soviet military awarded her with part of an Intermediate Nuclear Force missile, melted and made into a sculpture for her.

Rena Shulsky David was a founding partner of GlobalVision, a New York television production company. The company produced and aired the award-winning program "South Africa Now", the first major television show to focus on the horrors of apartheid. The show was acknowledged on the floor of the UN as being instrumental in the fall of apartheid.

She is a founding member of The Social Venture Network, a network of CEOs committed to running their business in a socially responsible manner. During her tenure as a member of the board of SVN, Ms. David was instrumental in the creation of the organization's International Standards for Corporate Social Responsibility.

During her tenure as a member of the Board of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, her long-time interest in integrative medicine led her to be instrumental in the creation of The Continuum Center for Health and Healing. The Center is the first integrative center associated with a major hospital in New York. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at Mount Sinai Hospital, also in New York. This center helps examine the association of childhood diseases with toxic chemicals in our environment.

Rena Shulsky David holds a degree in Political Science from Boston University with a concentration in Soviet Foreign Policy. While still an undergraduate, she was admitted to a graduate program in English literature at Oxford University in England.

She has been an environmentalist since childhood.

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