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Greg Kats

Senior Director and Director of climate change policy, New York

Gregory Kats is Senior Director and director of climate change policy at Good Energies, and is senior leader of Good Energies’ energy efficiency and green building investment cluster.

Greg is a founder of the American Council on Renewable Energy, and the New Resource Bank. He is founding chair of the Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group for LEED, and was the principal advisor in developing Green Communities, the national green affordable-housing design standard. He serves on numerous boards, is sustainability advisor to CalPERS and is a Senior Advisor to and serves on the investment committee of Osmosis Capital LLC, a London-based fund of funds operating in the low carbon sector.

Previously, Greg served as the director of financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. He served on the DOE Privatization Task Force and was part of a small team that developed the first corporate-wide greenhouse gas inventory for large corporations. He was the founding chair of the International Performance Measurement & Verification Protocol, which has served as a technical basis for $10 billion in building upgrades and been translated into ten languages. Earlier in his career, Greg held various senior management and marketing positions in Europe.

Greg earned an MBA from Stanford University and, concurrently, an MPA from Princeton University and is a Certified Energy Manager. He was a principal author of Green Office Buildings: A Practical Guide to Development (ULI, 2005) and is the author of the forthcoming book Greening Our Built World: costs, benefits and strategies (Island Press, 2009). Greg is a frequent keynote speaker at national clean-energy technology, venture capital, and real estate conferences.