Wayne Pacelle is President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). He has led successful efforts to pass hundreds of new state and federal laws to protect animals (more than 600 state laws since 2005, and more than 25 federal statutes over the last decade), and worked with dozens of corporations to enact operational changes that benefit animals. Pacelle has written the New York Times bestseller The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them.