Appendix C
Biographies of Planning Committee, Speakers, and Staff
ROB BENNETT (Chair, Planning Committee) is the founding executive director of EcoDistricts. Mr. Bennett is recognized as a leader in the sustainable cities movement, with 12 years of experience shaping municipal sustainable development projects and policy while working for the Clinton Foundation and the cities of Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC. His work focuses on the intersection of city planning, real estate development, economic development, and environmental policy. His projects include the founding of Portland’s award-winning green building program (G/Rated); helping shape the green building and infrastructure strategies for catalytic development projects, including the Brewery Blocks (Portland, OR), South Waterfront (Portland, OR), and 2010 Olympic Village (Vancouver BC); creating the EcoDistricts Initiative: and leading the development of a clean economy roadmap (Climate Prosperity Greenprint) for the Portland metro area. He was a founding board member of the Cascadia Green Building Council and sat on other nonprofit boards, including REACH Community Development, one of the Pacific NW’s largest and most innovative nonprofit affordable housing providers. He has lectured throughout the United States and abroad on topics ranging from green economic development, sustainable municipal innovation, and green building policy. Mr. Bennett is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.
JENNIFER H. ALLEN is an associate professor of public administration and director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. Her areas of research encompass environmental and natural resource policy and administration and sustainable economic development, with a particular focus on
green buildings and rural-urban market connections. Prior to September 2009 she served as interim director of the Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices, now named the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, where she supported the development of sustainability-related research and curricula across campus, as well as fostering partnerships between PSU and other institutions in the region and internationally. Dr. Allen has previously worked at the World Bank, Ecotrust, and the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department. She currently serves on the boards of Oregon Forest Resources Institute and Illahee and is a member of the Multnomah County Advisory Committee on Sustainability and Innovation. She previously served on the boards of Shorebank Pacific, Portland Energy Conservation Inc., the Portland Sustainability Institute and the Food Alliance. Dr. Allen holds degrees from Yale University, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and George Mason University.
SUSAN ANDERSON (Planning Committee), director of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, leads urban design, planning and code development for Portland, and builds partnerships to advance energy efficiency, solar, green building, clean energy technologies, waste reduction, composting and recycling, toxics reduction, sustainable food, and historic preservation citywide. In the early 90s, she led the development of the first local government Climate Action Plan in the United States. Susan has presented at over 100 venues nationally and internationally on sustainable urban development. She has held director-level positions in the public and private sector, and has a B.A. in economics, B.A. in environmental science, and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning. Ms. Anderson was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Oregon and as an Outstanding Alumnus of UC-Santa Barbara.
DANIELLE ARIGONI, AICP, is a senior policy analyst in EPA’s Smart Growth office. Her work there focuses on the affordability and environmental benefits of more-compact green housing and redevelopment. Ms. Arigoni represents EPA on the Affordability subgroup of the HUD-DOT-EPA Partnership for Sustainable Communities; she is the principal author of “Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connection” and co-author of “Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation” and “Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities.”
MICHAEL ARMSTRONG is the policy, research, and innovation manager for the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. His responsibilities include policy and programs addressing climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy, waste prevention and recycling, sustainable food systems, green building, historic resources, and asset management. Mr. Armstrong coordinated the public processes that led to Portland and Multnomah County’s 2001 Local
Action Plan on Global Warming and 2009 Climate Action Plan and tracks the implementation of local carbon-reduction efforts. He has staffed Portland’s involvement in Oregon Public Utility Commission proceedings, the citizen Peak Oil Task Force, and the city’s sale of carbon offsets to private purchasers. Mr. Armstrong cochairs the Policy Committee for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network and serves on the network’s Planning Committee. He received an M.P.A. from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs and a B.A. from Cornell University, and he attended Deep Springs College.
LAWRENCE BAKER is research professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The broad goal of Dr. Baker’s research and consulting is to develop novel approaches for reducing pollution that are more effective, cheaper, and fairer than conventional approaches. Much of his research in the past 10 years has focused on urban ecosystems, often focusing on mass flow analysis of nutrients, salts, and water at scales from households to urban and agricultural regions. He co-leads the Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum, which has the goal of bringing together academics and practitioners to improve the science of urban sustainability, and is a principal investigator in the Twin Cities Household Ecosystem Project. He has also served as chair of an award-winning citizen watershed group, Friends of the Sunrise River, from 2008-2010, as well as on the Citizens League Water Policy Study Committee. Dr. Baker received his Ph.D. in environmental engineering sciences from the University of Florida.
ANN BARTUSKA is deputy under secretary for research, education, and economics (REE) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Previously, she was deputy chief for research and development for the USDA Forest Service, a position she held since January 2004. She recently served as acting USDA deputy undersecretary for natural resources and environment from January-October of 2009 and was the executive director of the Invasive Species Initiative in the Nature Conservancy. Prior to this, Dr. Bartuska was the director of the forest and rangelands staff in the Forest Service in Washington, DC. She is an ecosystem ecologist with degrees from Wilkes College (B.S.), Ohio University (M.S.), and West Virginia University (Ph.D.). She has cochaired the National Academies Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability since 2010. She currently cochairs the Ecological Systems subcommittee of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the White House National Science and Technology Council. Dr. Bartuska is active in the Ecological Society of America, serving as vice president for public affairs from 1996-1999 and as president from 2002-2003. She has served on the board of the Council of Science Society Presidents and is a member of AAAS and of the Society of American Foresters.
JON BELMONT, program lead for energy conservation at the Oregon Department of Energy, leads the Cool Schools Program, a 4-year pilot program intended to create energy savings projects at public schools in the state. Dr. Belmont has led and developed multiple energy efficiency and conservation programs and projects for the Oregon Department of Energy including the Governor’s School Audit Initiative, SB 1149 Schools Program and the Cool Schools Program. He is responsible for developing strategies, initiatives, and programs to promote energy efficiency in public K-12 schools throughout Oregon. Dr. Belmont holds a B.S. in biological aspects of conservation, masters degrees in environmental science and natural resource management and environmental policy, and a Ph.D. in environmental science.
EARL BLUMENAUER, U.S. representative for Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District, has devoted his entire career to public service. While still a student at Lewis and Clark College, he spearheaded the effort to lower the voting age both in Oregon and at the national level. He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1972, where he served three terms and chaired the House Education and Revenue Committee in 1977-1978. In 1978, he was elected to the Multnomah County Commission, where he served for 8 years before being elected to the Portland City Council in 1986. There, his 10-year tenure as the commissioner of public works demonstrated his leadership on the innovative accomplishments in transportation, planning, environmental programs, and public participation that have helped Portland earn an international reputation as one of America’s most livable cities. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996, Mr. Blumenauer has created a unique role as Congress’ chief spokesperson for Livable Communities: places where people are safe, healthy, and economically secure. From 1996 to 2007, he served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he was a strong advocate for federal policies that address transportation alternatives, provide housing choices, support sustainable economies and improve the environment. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee from 2001 to 2007, and vice-chair of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming from 2007 to 2010. He is currently a member of the Budget Committee and Ways and Means Committee and the subcommittees on Health and Trade. Congressman Blumenauer’s academic training includes undergraduate and law degrees from Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
JARED BLUMENFELD was appointed by President Barack Obama and former Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to serve as EPA Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest in November 2009. Region 9 is home to more than 48 million people in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and 147 tribal nations. Mr. Blumenfeld has spent nearly two decades on the front lines of protecting the environment both at home and internationally. His priorities at EPA include strong enforcement; environmental justice; protecting and restoring our
air, land, and waters; building strong federal, state, local, and tribal partnerships; and taking action on climate change. During his tenure at EPA, Mr. Blumenfeld has taken a number of significant actions including: designating the Los Angeles River as “protected” under the Clean Water Act; stewarding a comprehensive judicial settlement to improve water quality for Honolulu; protecting over 5,000 square miles of California’s coastal waters by proposing to ban discharge of sewage from cargo vessels and cruise ships; bringing together diverse stakeholders throughout the San Joaquin Valley to develop solutions to some of the nation’s worst air quality problems; and leading innovative efforts and building partnerships to support the economy, environmental justice communities, and air quality in the Goods Movement sectors (ports, rail, truck). Before becoming Regional Administrator, Mr. Blumenfeld was the director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment, where he spent 8 years as the primary environmental decision maker for the city. Mr. Blumenfeld helped to initiate many landmark environmental laws that became part of the municipal Environment Code. These included San Francisco’s ban of plastic bags, a 2020 zero waste goal, LEED Gold building standards, and an overarching precautionary principle framework. Mr. Blumenfeld’s environmental leadership includes chairing the first United Nations World Environment Day hosted by the United States-Green Cities: Where the Future Lives (2005), overseeing the Treasure Island Redevelopment Authority, directing international initiatives to protect eight million acres of wildlife habitat, and editing an annual report on international environmental case law at Cambridge University. He is a founder of the Business Council on Climate Change, an organization that unites businesses around the challenge of climate change. Mr. Blumenfeld has worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Mr. Blumenfeld received his law degrees at the University of London and the University of California, Berkeley.
LEW BOWERS is the central city division manager for the Portland Development Commission (PDC). Mr. Bowers is responsible for translating Portland’s comprehensive and central city plans into reality, using the tools of both urban renewal and economic development. As the economic and employment core of the region, Portland’s Central City vibrancy depends on the work of Mr. Bowers and his team in promoting job creation, urban innovation, and the role of the Central City as a regional asset. Core functions of the division include redevelopment plans and strategies, predevelopment work and client assistance, development and public infrastructure projects, and urban renewal area management and coordination. Mr. Bowers has a history of crafting successful public/private partnerships to achieve city goals. He has more than 30 years experience in urban redevelopment and worked previously for both the cities of Eugene, Oregon, and New Haven, Connecticut. He has a master’s degree in public and private management from Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts
from Yale College. He also teaches a course on downtown development for Portland State University.
DOMINIC A. BROSE (Staff) is a program officer for the Science and Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies where he leads the urban sustainability workshop series. Prior to STS, Dr. Brose was with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies where he collaborated on science policy reports addressing the potential for adverse health effects from exposure of select military personnel to environmental contaminants. Previously, he was an environmental scientist at ToxServices LLC, where he evaluated client product formulations against human health and environmental screening criteria for EPA’s Design for the Environment (DfE) program. Dr. Brose received his B.S. in environmental science from Purdue University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in soil chemistry from the University of Maryland.
JOHN CLEVELAND (Planning Committee) is vice president and a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, a national nonprofit that develops and spreads scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems. John has more than 30 years of experience spanning the public, education, nonprofit, and private sectors. He has done extensive work across the country in human, social, and natural capital formation strategies, including work in sustainable development, green building design, organizational learning, socially responsible businesses, school reform, and economic development. Prior to founding the Innovation Network for Communities with Pete Plastrik, Mr. Cleveland was a partner in Integral Assets Consulting, a for-profit consulting company that specializes in large-scale systems change projects, with a focus on the intersection between private markets and public good. He has written extensively on a broad range of subjects, including systems theory, learning theory, organizational change, sustainable development, innovation, continuous improvement, and world class manufacturing strategy. John has also served on numerous private and public boards, including the West Michigan Land Conservancy, Crystal Flash, and University Prep Academy. He is currently on the boards of New Urban Learning, the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago, I-GO, Sacoma International, CK Technologies and Progressive Architecture and Engineering. John graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in city planning from Yale University.
GLEN T. DAIGGER (Planning Committee) (NAE) is senior vice president with CH2M HILL in Englewood, Colorado. He serves as chief wastewater process engineer and is responsible for wastewater process engineering on both municipal and industrial wastewater treatment projects on a firmwide basis. Dr. Daigger is the first technical fellow for the firm, an honor which recognizes the leadership he provides for CH2M HILL and for the profession in development and implemen-
tation of new wastewater treatment technology. He is also the chief technology officer for the firm’s Civil Infrastructure Client Group, which includes the firm’s water, transportation, and operations businesses. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Daigger served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Systems Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Daigger is a registered professional engineer in the states of Indiana and Arizona and a board certified environmental engineer. Dr. Daigger received his B.Sc.E. degree, his M.S.C.E. degree, and his Ph.D. degree, all in environmental engineering, from Purdue University.
JOSEPH DANKO, managing director for urban programs at CH2M HILL, brings more than 25 years of experience to his role overseeing urban development programs and strategic master planning for cities and communities around the world. He has participated in sustainable projects from master planning and financing through design, construction, and operations, including development of environmental management systems, sustainable communities and agriculture, renewable energy applications, climate change assessment, and waste-to-energy systems. Mr. Danko’s extensive experience includes creating a Nondestructive Evaluation/Nondestructive Testing company with Bristol Bay Native Corporation in Alaska; providing senior leadership for our total water management business in Alberta, Canada; serving as project director of an $800 million infrastructure utilities project; and leading an industrial “zero waste” initiative.
JONATHAN FINK (Planning Committee), a national leader in the development of interdisciplinary research initiatives, is now at Portland State University in the newly created position of vice president for research and strategic partnerships. Fink comes from Arizona State University (ASU) where, as vice president for research, he oversaw the tripling of external funding, the launching of internationally recognized institutes in sustainability and biodesign, and stronger ties between academic research and regional economic development. Dr. Fink was Foundation Professor in the School of Sustainability and School of Earth and Space Exploration and director of the Center for Sustainability Science Applications. He served as director of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability and its first university sustainability officer from 2007-2009. Dr. Fink served for a decade as the university’s senior research officer (1997-2002 as vice provost for research and 2002-2007 as vice president for research and economic affairs). He was also chairman of the geology department (now part of the School of Earth and Space Exploration) from 2005-2007. Dr. Fink is a volcano specialist who studies eruptions on Earth and other planets. His current research and policy interests include urban sustainability, conservation biology, and renewable energy. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a trustee of the Arizona Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, a member of the board of advisors of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, and a member of the National Board of KB Homes.
JILL FUGLISTER is a program officer for the Meyer Memorial Trust, where she learns about the great work of nonprofits in the region the Trust services and presents the information to the Trustees, who determine what grants the Trust makes. Prior to joining Meyer, for 12 years, she had the privilege of leading Coalition for a Livable Future, where she worked to connect the dots between a broad array of organizations’ efforts aimed at creating sustainable communities in greater Portland. She received a B.A. in government from the University of Notre Dame and an M.S. in environmental studies from the University of Oregon.
CHARLIE HALES is mayor of the City of Portland, Oregon, having assumed office on January 1, 2013. Prior to his election as mayor, Mr. Hales served as senior vice president for transit planning at HDR, Inc., where he instituted and managed projects in Cincinnati, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Scottsdale. He has also served on the Portland City Council, where he championed light rail expansion, streetcar development, and safe bicycle routes to reduce traffic congestion and improve the environment. While on the Council, he also inspired the first successful bond measure in half a century for the Parks Bureau, then leveraged the funds to raise enough additional money to build or renovate 110 parks in every area of the city. A decrepit community center in Mount Scott was repaired and outfitted with a swimming pool, the Peninsula Park Center in North Portland was restored, and new community centers rose in East Portland and Southwest Portland. He earned his degree in political theory from an honors program at the University of Virginia. Mr. Hales is on the boards of Friends of Trees and the Portland Parks Foundation. He has been a SMART reader, volunteered at Meals on Wheels and served on the Portland Public Committee. His work has been honored by the Bruner Foundation for Urban Excellence, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association, the League of Oregon Cities, and the Portland Bicycle Transportation Alliance.
COLIN HARRISON retired in January 2013 from IBM. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer Emeritus and was the inventor of IBM’s Smarter City technical programme. Dr. Harrison was previously director of strategic innovation in IBM Europe and director of global services research. He is an IBM Master Inventor and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. His current activities are focused on applying systems methods to resilience solutions for cities and regions. He spent 1972-1977 at CERN developing the SPS accelerator and its distributed, real-time control system. In 1977, at EMI Central Research Laboratories, he led development of the first clinical MRI system. At IBM since 1979, he worked on micromagnetics, medical imaging, parallel computing, mobile computing, intelligent agents, telecommunications, knowledge management, and Smarter Cities. In 2011 he spent several months working in Tohoku, Japan, on plans for the region’s recovery from the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami, and he has
increasingly focused on resilient cities. He studied at Imperial College, London and the University of Munich, earning a Ph.D. in materials science. He is fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, life member of the Institution of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, and founder member of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. He is an expert advisor to the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences and has been a visiting scientist at MIT, Harvard Medical School, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Harrison has published some 60 articles and has been awarded some 30 patents.
MIKE HOGLUND is director, Metro Research Center, Portland. Mr. Hoglund is responsible for leading a team of over 30 professionals that provide regional mapping, GIS, and forecasting and modeling services. He has 30 years of experience in urban and regional transportation and land-use planning, solid waste management and recycling systems, performance measurement, and sustainable practices. Mr. Hoglund was appointed by the governor of Oregon to serve on the Metropolitan Greenhouse Gas Emission Task Force and has chaired the Oregon Global Warming Commission’s Transportation/Land Use Year 2020 Roadmap subcommittee. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium, the University Transportation Center headquartered at Portland State University.
ALISA KANE is the green building and development manager for the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. There she works on green capital improvement projects, ecodistricts, district energy, policy initiatives, and partnerships. She has a master’s degree in urban planning and has spent the last 18 years working in the fields of green building, community development, and recycling. Ms. Kane is a published writer, a regular speaker at green building events, and an active community volunteer.
CHARLES KELLEY is a senior urban designer and architect with more than 27 years of experience. He has had a primary role in redevelopment projects in a variety of types, scales, and contexts, nationally and internationally. He uses design to crystallize community consensus around district systems decisions for institutions and municipalities. He is an expert advisor on the interconnection of district scaled improvements through community engagement in building, mobility, watershed, energy, and open space systems for ZGF Architects. In this role, he is currently working on the Southwest EcoDistrict in Washington, DC, and is a current member of the city’s 1 Percent for Green Committee, a past member of the City of Portland Watershed Advisory Group, Stormwater Advisory Committee, and PoSI EcoDistrict Technical Advisory Committee for Water and Vital Communities.
GIL KELLEY is an urban and strategic planning consultant based in Portland, Oregon. He advises city, county, and regional governments on strategies for
addressing climate change, sustainable urban development, and organizational aspects of local planning and development functions. Prior to starting his own firm in February of this year, Mr. Kelley served as director of planning for the City of Portland for 9 years and as director of planning and development for the City of Berkeley, California for 10 years. He has also been a planning consultant in California and Oregon for both public and private sector clients. He speaks nationally and internationally on planning and climate change and sits on a number of advisory boards for organizations concerned with public health, climate change, and sustainable urban development. Mr. Kelley is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University and is at work on a publication entitled The Intentional City. He teaches a Master Class each fall at the University of Amsterdam, NL, for senior-level European planning professionals. Mr. Kelley is a member of the American Planning Association and is active in APA’s efforts to educate professional planners.
JIM LESTER (Planning Committee) holds a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently the president of the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). Previously, he served as vice president and chief operating officer of HARC. He joined HARC in 2002 as the director of HARC’s Environment Group. Dr. Lester is responsible for strategic direction of HARC’s programs, which are designed to make more sustainable our management of water, air, and natural resources. From 1975 to 2002, he was a faculty member and administrator in the University of Houston System where he held administrative positions at the University of Houston-Clear Lake as a dean, associate vice president, and director of the Environmental Institute of Houston. During his tenure at HARC, Dr. Lester has been engaged in projects that analyze compilations of datasets from multiple sources to obtain new insights for watershed or landscape management. He also has served in a leadership capacity for the HARC program on air quality science. Dr. Lester serves in an advisory capacity to a variety of organizations. He serves as the chair of the Monitoring and Research Committee of the Galveston Bay Estuary Program, vice chair of the Trinity San Jacinto Basin and Bay Expert Science Team on environmental flows, and on advisory committees for the Texas Sea Grant Program, Texas A&M University College of Geosciences, and the Texas Environmental Research Consortium.
ROBERT LIBERTY, director of the Urban Sustainability Accelerator at Portland State University, has worked in many roles and at all levels of government to promote livable and sustainable cities and regions. Liberty was staff attorney and then executive director of 1000 Friends of Oregon, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the implementation, defense, and improvement of Oregon’s comprehensive land-use planning program. He worked as a land-use hearings officer, a planning consultant, and a speaker on planning topics in the United States and other countries. He served as senior counsel to Congressman Earl Blumenauer of
Oregon, assisting him with federal policy issues concerning livable communities. In 2004 he was elected to the Metro Council, the metropolitan government in the Portland, Oregon, region and was re-elected in 2008. On the Metro Council he chaired and cochaired committees considering rail transit investments, regional housing policy, and other matters. In his career in higher education Liberty has helped establish relationships with sustainable city planning and design efforts in China and participated in one of U.S. HUD’s sustainable communities regional planning grants, helping to develop triple-bottom-line evaluation frameworks for transportation investments. Liberty became director of the Urban Sustainability Accelerator in October 2012. He received his B.A. in political science from the University of Oregon Honors College, a master’s degree in modern history from Oxford University, and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. During the 2002-2003 academic year, he was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
RENEE LOVELAND, sustainability manager at Gerdling Edlen Development, has over 15 years of experience in real estate development focused on all aspects of green building. In her role at Gerdling Edlin, she manages the LEED certification efforts across the firm’s portfolio. Much of her time is spent working early on with the various design and construction teams in different markets to integrate meaningful energy and water efficiency strategies into buildings. She’s worked on over 50 LEED projects, including commercial office (both new construction and renovations), multi-family (both low and mid-rise) and commercial interiors. Ms. Loveland is also a project manager within Gerding Edlen Sustainable Solutions, where she works with public and private real estate portfolio owners to provide tailored retrofit development services as well as master planning consulting services around district-scale infrastructure. She served a 3-year term on the City of Portland’s Development Review Advisory Committee (DRAC), is on the board of the Center for Innovative School Facilities, an Innovation Partnership project and is currently president of Toastmasters Club #2265, Essayons. Ms. Loveland graduated from the American University in Paris in 1991 with a B.A. in international relations and minors in both international economics and French and is a LEED AP BD+C accredited professional.
LOREN LUTZENHISER, professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University, explores the ways that cities and people use energy in ordinary and exceptional circumstances. He is interested in how lifestyles shape energy demands and environmental impacts, as well as how policies and social movements affect lifestyles. His research and findings strive to inform energy conservation policy and programs as the world grapples with a changing climate. Dr. Lutzenhiser teaches graduate-level courses in energy and society, sustainable development practices, and research design for the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. He also acts as research associate with the Center for Urban Studies, the research
center of the school. As senior fellow with the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Dr. Lutzenhiser also considers new ways Portland State University can advance the state-of-the-art in an already innovative local-regional energy efficiency and renewable energy industry. Prior to joining PSU faculty in 2002, Dr. Lutzenhiser was an associate professor of sociology at Washington State University. Living for many years in Montana, he worked as an executive director for a human resources council and as a state community affairs field representative. The desire for social change at the state, regional, and local level led him to doctoral studies. Dr. Lutzenhiser recently contributed to the National Academy of Sciences panel report America’s Climate Choices: Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change (2010) and co-edited the book Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society (2009). He has authored and co-authored a number of articles in scientific journals including Social Problems, Energy, Energy Policy, the Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, The American Behavioral Scientist, Environmental Forum, and The International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology.
MARINA S. MOSES (Staff) serves as the director for the Science and Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) in the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies. In this capacity, she directs the Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. Under her leadership, the STS Program issued the consensus report, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, and has recently released a multi-sponsored study, Sustainability for the Nation. Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. Moses served on the faculty of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Previously, Dr. Moses held senior scientific positions in the Environmental Management Division of the U.S. Department of Energy and the New York City office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Program. Dr. Moses received her Bachelor’s (Chemistry) and Master of Science (Environmental Health Sciences) degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She received her Doctorate of Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences) from Columbia University School of Public Health.
MELANIE NUTTER leads the San Francisco Department of Environment, which helps all San Francisco residents and businesses take an active role in protecting and enhancing the urban environment, produces and publicizes information on sustainable practices, and develops innovative and practical environmental programs for all residents. She was appointed to this position by Mayor Gavin Newsom in July 2010. Beginning in 2005, Nutter served as deputy district director for the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, where she managed the speaker’s district office by supervising staff, addressing constituent concerns, and advising on local policy issues. Ms. Nutter functioned as the district policy liaison to Speaker Pelosi’s policy advisors on issues including the environment, energy, transportation, environmental health, women’s issues,
and food policy. Ms. Nutter has over 18 years experience in fundraising, events management, grassroots organizing, and media relations. In 2002, she worked as the canvass director for the San Francisco Democratic Party’s SF Vote Project and oversaw 2 assistant directors and 80 paid staff on Election Day. Ms. Nutter founded and chairs the Energy and Environment Circle for the Full Circle Fund with the help of Vice President Al Gore and green jobs advocate Van Jones. She has also been a grassroots environmental organizer with Greenbelt Alliance, the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG), and Green Corps. Ms. Nutter holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in communications and environmental studies.
JULIA PARZEN is the coordinator for the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, a network formed to enable public sector sustainability leaders to learn from each other and accelerate achievement of ambitious city sustainability goals. Previously, she has been a foundation program officer for conservation and employment (The Joyce Foundation), a triple bottom line entrepreneur (co-founder and chief executive officer, Working Assets Money Fund), and a leader in state government energy financing (deputy director of the Office of Policy, Planning, and Research, Department of Business and Economic Development, State of California) and federal government economic assistance programs (acting branch chief of industrial analysis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). Ms. Parzen is the author of Credit Where It is Due: Development Banking for Communities (Temple University Press, 1990). She also co-edited Enterprising Women with Sara Gould (OECD, 1990) and co-authored Financing Transit Oriented Development with Abby Siegel, a chapter in The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development, edited by Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland (Island Press, 2004). She has served as the board chair of Working Assets, Muir Investment Trust, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Newberger Hillel Center at the University of Chicago, Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School, and I-Go Car Sharing. She also has been a board member for Sand County Venture Fund and Anawim Fund of the Midwest. Ms. Parzen has an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in chinese economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, with Highest Honors, Bronze Tablet, and Phi Beta Kappa.
DAVID PORTER is a regional economic development representative with the U.S. Department of Commerce–Economic Development Administration. His office is in the World Trade Center in downtown Portland, Oregon, and his service territory includes the entire state of Oregon and 15 southern-tier counties in Washington State from Clark County to the Palouse. He joined EDA in March 2008. Mr. Porter works principally with communities and regions experiencing substantial and persistent economic distress. He helps them identify and leverage opportunities to invest in critical infrastructure and economic development
capacity building in order to attract private-sector capital and higher skilled, higher wage employment. Mr. Porter draws on 30 years of business and organizational management experience acquired in such venues as hospitality marketing, soft goods retailing, educational program sales, and training administration. His background includes 22 years of management-level experience in five different economic development organizations: director of marketing, Economic Development Council of Snohomish County, Everett, Washington; director of economic development, Roanoke County Virginia; marketing manager, Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, Vienna, Virginia; executive director, Kitsap Economic Development Council, Bremerton, Washington; and business development manager for the Washington State Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development in Seattle, Washington. After completing college in North Carolina and military service, he earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington and more recently completed an Organization Development certification program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
ANDRE N. PETTIGREW is the executive director of Clean Economy Solutions, a nonprofit clean-economy accelerator for metro regions, helping them maximize their existing clean economy opportunity, envision how it could grow, and chart a roadmap for getting there. Mr. Pettigrew is responsible for the strategic management and development of the organization. Mr. Pettigrew was formerly the executive director of the Office of Economic Development for the city and county of Denver under former Mayor John Hickenlooper (now Governor of Colorado). During his tenure the City launched the “Greener Denver Business” program, an economic development strategy in support of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s “Greenprint Denver” climate action program. Under Mr. Pettigrew’s leadership OED played a major role in supporting renewable energy companies interested in expanding to Denver. He also played a role in recruiting two world class German manufacturing companies—SMA Solar and Repower—which opened major facilities in Denver creating over 700 manufacturing jobs. He is a member of the U.S. Chamber’s Environmental Innovation Network. Pettigrew serves on the national sustainability advisory board for KB Home, a national home builder and the technical advisory committee for the U.S. Green Building Council’s STAR Community Index. He is currently a fellow at Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Mr. Pettigrew received his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and graduated from the State and Local Government Senior Executive Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
AMANDA PITRE-HAYES is the director of sustainability for the city of Vancouver. There, she leads a team of 16 to achieve the Council directive to become the world’s greenest city by 2020. She has 19 years of experience in
leadership roles at Vancity, the Pembina Institute, Accenture, and The Body Shop Canada. At Vancity, Ms. Pitre-Hayes managed the organization’s climate change strategy and led its successful effort to be the first carbon neutral financial institution in North America. As director of climate change consulting with the Pembina Institute, Ms. Pitre-Hayes worked with organizations, such as TD Bank, to become greener by measuring and managing carbon dioxide emissions. As a manager at Accenture, she managed major projects for North American government, energy, telecom, and financial services organizations. At The Body Shop Canada, Ms. Pitre-Hayes served as assistant to the president, supporting the organization with a variety of sustainability initiatives. Ms. Pitre-Hayes is an alumnus of Harvard University’s Global Change Agent program and holds an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
DYLAN RICHMOND (Staff) is a research assistant for the Science and Technology for Sustainability Program (STS) at the National Academies. Before joining the Academies the fall of 2010, he attended Georgetown University and graduated with a B.A. in economics in May 2010. While at Georgetown, Mr. Richmond was an editor for The Georgetown Voice. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University.
JOHN ROBINSON is the associate provost for sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is a professor with UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability and Department of Geography. Dr. Robinson is responsible for leading the integration of academic and operational sustainability on UBC’s Vancouver campus. In that capacity, he directs the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) and provides leadership for UBC’s academic, research, and operational activities and programs in sustainability. He also represents UBC’s sustainability activities to the broader local and international community. Dr. Robinson’s research focuses on the intersection of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability; sustainable buildings and urban design; the use of visualization, modeling, and citizen engagement to explore sustainable futures; creating partnerships for sustainability with the private, public, non-governmental, and research sectors; and, generally, the intersection of sustainability, social, and technological change, behaviour change, and community engagement processes. Previously a fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, he has been a lead author in the last three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007. In 2012, Canadian Geographic magazine named Professor Robinson Canada’s Environmental Scientist of the Year, and he received the Metro Vancouver Architecture Canada Architecture Advocacy Award for 2012.
LILLIAN SHIRLEY (Planning Committee), B.S.N., M.P.H., M.P.A., director of the Multnomah County Health Department, provides public health leadership in
collaboration with community partners to address the county’s health needs, and offers health policy leadership on both a county and state level. Her department is the largest provider of safety-net services in the state of Oregon. Ms. Shirley is the appointed vice-chair of the Oregon Health Policy Board charged with implementing health reform in Oregon and is immediate-past president of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Prior to coming to Oregon, Ms. Shirley was director of public health in Boston and was responsible for all preventive and community-based health services. After participating in the merger of Boston’s public hospital with Boston University’s medical center, Ms. Shirley served as the first executive director of the newly formed Boston Public Health Commission. In this role, she had executive responsibility for the establishment, design, and organization of the new public health authority in Boston. Ms. Shirley received a master’s degree in public health from Boston University and a master’s degree in public administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ms. Shirley served for 9 years as a board member of CareOregon, the state’s largest Medicaid insurer. She also is vice president of the Public Health Foundation, a member of the board of Oregon Public Health Institute, the Portland Sustainable Development Commission, an adjunct faculty member in the OHSU School of Medicine Dept of Community Medicine, and a board member of North by Northeast Community Health Center.
TIM SMITH founded SERA’s Urban Design and Planning Studio when he joined the firm in 2001 and serves as principal at the firm. He has over three decades of experience in architecture, urban design, city and regional planning, campus planning, and transit-oriented development. Lately he has been focused on the interplay between EcoDistricts (neighborhoods or districts dedicated to localized sustainability) and Civic Ecology (the inter-related network of resources flows and human systems that animate communities). Mr. Smith has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan, and master’s degrees in both urban design and city planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as vice president of the Portland Planning Commission, on the Portland Chapter AIA Urban Design Committee, and on the Mayor’s Central City Roundtable.
JOHN SOUTHGATE, director of business development for the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce, provides consulting services primarily focused on public-private redevelopment projects. While with the City of Hillsboro, Mr. Southgate led the City’s efforts to revitalize its downtown, which is the historic heart of the community and which is also served by light rail—it is the western terminus of the Portland region’s Westside MAX line which opened in 1998. His key achievements included the formation of an urban renewal area in downtown; amendments to the City’s arcane development code which make it more conducive to medium density mixed-use development; as well as the City’s manager of “4th/Main,” the
first true TOD project in Hillsboro. He also managed the City’s role in the “Health & Education District,” a partnership with Tuality Hospital and Pacific University’s Health Professions Campus which has resulted in approximately $100M of transit supportive institutional development. Before coming to the City of Hillsboro, Mr. Southgate worked with the Portland Development Commission, where he managed the Interstate and Lents Urban Renewal Plans and also worked in the Pearl District and Old Town/Chinatown. In each of these areas he managed TOD projects, while also promoting the revitalization of older commercial districts. Prior to his work with PDC, John worked with the Portland Bureau of Planning, where he ran the City’s Historic Landmarks program amongst other duties. He also worked briefly with the City of Gresham as a Senior Planner and Economic Development Manager. A lifelong Oregonian, Mr. Southgate is a graduate of the University of Oregon.
WIM WIEWEL assumed the presidency of Portland State University in August 2008. Under his leadership, the university has developed five guiding themes: provide civic leadership through partnerships, improve student success, achieve global excellence, enhance educational opportunity, and expand resources and improve effectiveness. This has brought a renewed focus on expanding the university’s civic partnerships in the region and achieving a new degree of excellence through strategic investments. Prior to coming to PSU, Dr. Wiewel was the provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at the University of Baltimore. From 1979 to 2004, Dr. Wiewel was with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he most recently served as dean of the College of Business Administration. He also directed UIC’s Center for Urban Economic Development. He holds degrees in sociology and urban planning from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. Dr. Wiewel has authored or edited 9 books and more than 65 articles and chapters that have appeared in publications and journals, including Economic Development Quarterly, Economic Geography, and the Journal of the American Planning Association. His most recent books are Global Universities and Urban Development, The University as Urban Developer, and Suburban Sprawl.
LORIE WIGLE leads Intel’s Eco-Technology effort, which is focused on the sustainable manufacturing and usage of Intel’s products. This corporate-wide function drives Intel’s market position across energy efficient performance and design for the environment. In this capacity Ms. Wigle also drives external programs related to client, server, and data center efforts, including Intel’s participation in Green Grid and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Prior to this position, She was the director of server technology and initiatives marketing for Intel. In that role, she and her team were responsible for Intel Virtualization Technology offerings as well as Intel Dynamic Power Technology and other advanced platform capabilities. Her organization also drove industry engage-
ment on memory and I/O for server platforms. Ms. Wigle has been with Intel for 24 years in a wide variety of marketing and product planning roles and was the general manager of Intel’s Internet Imaging Services group. She has an M.B.A. from Portland State University and a B.A. degree from the University of Oregon.
JAY WILLIAMS is the executive director of the Office of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers. ORACW works directly with state and local stakeholders in areas affected by the changing American automotive industry to ensure that they receive the federal support necessary that, when in conjunction with state and local efforts, will help these communities return to a better economic condition. Williams served as the mayor of Youngstown, Ohio from 2006 to August 1, 2011. During his tenure as mayor of Youngstown, Mr. Williams led efforts that have a direct impact on improving the quality of life for the citizens of Youngstown. Mr. Williams is the recipient of the 2007 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award. Prior to being elected, he spent 5 years as the director of community development for the city. Before transitioning into public service, Mr. Williams enjoyed a distinguished career in banking, which included stints at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and First Place Bank, as a vice president. He was born and raised in Youngstown. He graduated from Youngstown State University with a B.S./B.A., majoring in finance.
ELIZABETH WILLMOTT is the project manager for Climate Solutions’ New Energy Cities Program, working with cities to help them meet their carbon reduction goals through innovative programs and policies. She most recently co-authored Powering the New Energy Future from the Ground Up, a July 2012 report on small and medium-sized cities around the United States that are demonstrating leadership in local clean energy innovation. Ms. Willmott was lead author of the World Bank’s 2011 climate change adaptation guide for cities in developing countries, co-author of King County’s 2007 adaptation guidebook with ICLEI and the University of Washington, climate change aide to former King County Executive Ron Sims, and project manager of the first King County Climate Plan in 2007. She also served as Recovery Act performance and accountability lead for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, overseeing the results of $13.6 billion in grants to cities and communities around the U.S. She holds a double degree in biology and Chinese language from Williams College and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.
