Conversion for the Environment International Foundation (CFE) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with the international administrative board. The Foundation's mission is to address urgent environmental issues, especially through the utilization of the material and intellectual resources of the former defense industries, thereby assisting in the process of defense conversion.

CFE is a non-profit organization with an international administrative board and main offices in Russia and the Netherlands.

The CFE Foundation Board Members and Trustees

• Mr. Guenther Baechler, Director, The Swiss Peace Foundation (Switzerland)
• Professor Nils Petter Gleditsch, Senior research fellow, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (Norway)
• Professor Eui-Gak Hwang, Faculty of Economics, Korea University of Seoul (South Korea)
• Dr. Alexander Kaffka, Head of Department,  Institute for the USA and Canadian  Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
• Dr. Sverre Lodgaard, Director, The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research  (UNIDIR) (Switzerland)
• Mr. Andrew Portocarrero, Program director, The Brookings Institution  (USA)
• Gen.-Leut. (ret.) Dr. Boris T. Surikov, Academy of Sciences of Russia (Russia)
• Professor Hylke Tromp, Chair, International and Environmental Security, Faculty of Law, The Groningen University (The Netherlands)
• Mr. Roland Wiederkehr MP, Director, The Swiss Green Cross, Member of Swiss Parliament  (Switzerland)

CFE Foundation appreciates support received from:

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands
• Milieukontakt Oost-Europa Foundation (The Netherlands)
• The Rockefeller Foundation (USA)
• The Samsung Group (Korea)