Anne H. Ehrlich

Anne Howland Ehrlich (born Anne Fitzhugh Howland , November 17, 1933 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the wife of Stanford University professor Paul R. Ehrlich.

The two were married on December 18, 1954. They remain married and have one child, Lisa Marie.

Since 1987 she has been an associate director and policy coordinator of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford.

Together with her husband, Anne Ehrlich co-authored several books on the subjects of overpopulation and ecology:

• Earth (1987)
• The Population Explosion (1990)
• Healing the Planet: Strategies for Resolving the Environmental Crisis (1991)
• Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (1998)
• One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future (2004)

Anne Ehrlich served on the board of directors of Friends of the Earth from 1976 to 1985, the Center for Innovative Diplomacy from 1981 to 1992, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory from 1989 to 1999, and the Sierra Club from 1996 to 2002. She currently serves on the boards of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Environment, Development, and Security and the New-Land Foundation . Until 2003 she was on the board of advisors for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.