Leadership & Personnel
Steering Committee
Greg Kats
CEO and Steering Committee Co-Chair
Author of Greening Our Built World: Costs, Benefits, and Strategies
Vivian Loftness
Steering Committee Co-chair
Paul Mellon Chair of Architecture, Professor, and former Head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine Werner
Director of Sustainability & Innovation, National League of Cities
Georges Benjamin,
MD
Executive Director, American Public Health Association
Cynthia Koehler
Co-founder and Executive Director of Waternow Alliance
William H. Lamar IV
Pastor of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church
Sanjay Seth
Senior Director – Sustainable Habitat Programme, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) & VP & CEO, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment Council
Durwood Zaelke
Founder and President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
Dr. Radhika Khosla
Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development
Mark Conway
Baltimore City Councilmember and Executive Vice-President at the Chesapeake Conservancy
Ian Riley
CEO, World Cement Association and Partner, WhitewaterTx
Michael Burger
Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School
Chris Leinberger
Chairman of the Center for Real Estate & Urban Analysis at The George Washington University
George Frampton
Former Chair, CEQ; CEO, Partnership for Responsible Growth; and Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Jackie Roberts
Independent Board Member and Senior ESG/Sustainability Advisor, Former Chief Sustainability Officer, The Carlyle Group
Harold Wimmer
National President and CEO, American Lung Association
Rev. Dr. Reginald Blount
Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Oikos Institute and Pastor of Arnett Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Jennifer Roberts
Former Mayor of Charlotte NC
John Spengler
Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation and Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Sherri Goodman
Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security.
Kandia Milton
Government Affairs Director, Dream.org
Board of Directors
Frank E. Loy
BOARD CHAIR
Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Former Board Chair at Environmental Defense Fund
Julie Katzman
BOARD MEMBER
Former COO of Inter-American Development Bank
Greg Kats
BOARD MEMBER
Smart Surfaces Coalition Founder/CEO, Former Managing Director, Good Energies
Carolina Barco
BOARD MEMBER (EMERITUS)
Former Foreign Minister for Colombia, Ambassador to the U.S., & IADB Consultant
Rashad Kaldany
BOARD MEMBER
Former COO of the International Finance Corporation
Tracy R. Wolstencroft
BOARD MEMBER
Former Partner at Goldman Sachs, Former President & CEO of National Geographic Society
STAFF
Greg Kats
Founder/CEO
Shallon Hartke
Vice President of Administration
Rhea Rao
Project Coordinator
Bill Updike
Program Manager
Dean Berkowitz
Data Project Manager
Ally Pecego
Media Coordinator
Megha Behal
India Program Manager
Iona Isachsen
Senior Project Coordinator
Corinne Jachelski
Part-time Software Engineer
Jacob Miller
Project Manager
Ingrid Suazo Meza
Climate Resilience Data Analyst
Rosalie Bull
Project Coordinator/Executive Assistant
Interns
Anna LaCombe
Cities for Smart Surfaces Intern
Eric Lo
Policy Research Intern
Riya Malhotra
Data Analyst Intern
Dominic Folkes
Media / Communications Intern
Elle Krolicki
Policy Research Intern
SSC PROJECT-DEDICATED STAFF AT PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
Rev. Dr. Jon Robinson
Senior Program Director, Metropolitan AME Church
Shweta Arya
Senior Project Manager, Smart Surfaces, American Public Health Association
Daniel Metzger
Smart Surfaces Fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
Charles Ellison
Senior Fellow, Public Affairs
Advisory Board
Mary Nichols
Former Chair of California Air Resources Board & Assistant Secretary for EPA
Dr. Philipp Rode
Executive Director of LSE Cities and Co-Director of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate’s cities workstream
Jennifer McFarlane
Board Member of Verra
John Elkington
Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans
Nick Bridge
Former UK Special Representative for Climate Change
James Cameron
Former Chairman of Climate Change Capital and the Overseas Development Institute, London Sustainable Development Commissioner and Friend of COP26
Anuj Gupta
President and Chair of TiE London
Dr. K. Srinath Reddy
Honorary Distinguished Professor and Goodwill Ambassador of PHFI for Public Health Partnerships
George Coelho
Co-Founder and Partner of Astanor
GENERAL COUNSEL
Simon Steel
Partner, Dentons US LLP
Software Architect
Ryan McCuaig
Senior Advisor, Technology OPEN Technologies
URBAN FOREST EXPERT
Dr. David J. Nowak
Emeritus Senior Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
smart surfaces scholars
Dr. Jesus Lizana
Marie Curie Fellow
Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford
Emily Merlot
Graduate Student - Climate Science & Policy
Bard College
Tamara Mehta
Health Research Scholar
Yale University
Dr. Linda Tomasso Powers
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Pranav Krishnan
Morehead-Cain Scholar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Suzy Li
PhD candidate - Building Performance & Diagnostics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pratyush Seshadri
Morehead-Cain Scholar
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexander Azan, MD
Assistant Professor & Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
NYU Langone Health Department of Public Health & NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dr. Aishwarya Kurade
Health Research Scholar
Yale University