Background
He is the second-oldest son of former United States Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and his first wife, Mary Rockefeller.
He is the second-oldest son of former United States Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and his first wife, Mary Rockefeller.
Subsequently, he obtained an Master of Divinity degree from the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy of religion from Columbia University.
He is a trustee of the Asian Cultural Council and an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has also served as a director of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. He is a professor emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont where he previously served as college dean and chairman of the religion department.
The couple had three children before divorcing.
Steven Rockefeller remarried and had one child before the marriage ended in divorce. He then wed Barbara Bellows on May 11, 1991.
He coordinated the drafting of the Earth Charter for the Earth Charter Commission and Earth Council. In 2005, he moderated the international launch of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) (2005-2014) in its headquarters in New York, launched by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and attended by Nane Annan, the wife of Secretary General Kofi Annan.
He is Company-Chair of Earth Charter International Council and has written numerous essays on the Earth Charter, available at the Earth Charter website.