Vivien Li is Executive Director of The Boston Harbor Association (TBHA), a public interest organization that promotes a clean, alive, and accessible Boston Harbor.  TBHA was the first organization to work for the clean up of Boston Harbor and for the restoration of Boston Harbor beaches, and actively promotes a balance of diverse uses on the waterfront.  Under Vivien’s leadership, TBHA has been the primary advocate for the completion of the 47-mile HarborWalk public access network around Boston Harbor and the Fort Point Channel (currently 84% complete) and is currently working towards a “Green Boston Harbor”.   Vivien served as a co-chair of the Fort Point Channel Management Committee which helped to develop the Fort Point Channel Watersheet Activation Plan.

Vivien served two terms on the Board of Directors of the national Sierra Club, currently chairs MassDevelopment’s Brownfields Advisory Group, is on the advisory council to the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and serves as an overseer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Vivien is Boston Women’s Business’s 2009 Hall of Fame Executive, and in 2008 was named an honorary member of the Boston Society of Architects. In 2005, Vivien was a member of the inaugural class of the Barr Foundation Fellows and the first recipient of the American Society for Public Administration’s John W. Gaston, Jr., Award for Excellence in Public Service Management.

Vivien received her BA in environmental management from Barnard College, Columbia University; and a joint masters degree in public affairs and urban and regional planning from Princeton University.