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FACULTY

Courses are taught by an expert faculty, including renowned practitioners in fields ranging from environmental law to alternative energy financing and researchers who are leaders in the fields of earth science, engineering and environmental management. The program utilizes environmental and sustainable development research and practitioner experience to provide practical training in sustainability management to a new generation of professionals who will address critical interdisciplinary issues.

Faculty advisors are identified by an asterisk (*) after their name.

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Steve Cohen, Ph.D.*
Program Director

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Satyajit Bose*
Associate Director

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Dong Guo*
Professor of Practice

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Lynnette Widder*
Professor of Practice

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Du'Bois A'Keen

ESG & DEiB Director

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Laia Andreu-Hayles

Research Associate Professor, Tree-Ring Lab, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Sonay Aykan

Associate Director, Sustainability and ESG, Colgate-Palmolive Company

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Paul Barker

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

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Susan Blaustein

Founder/Director, WomenStrong International

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Chanda Burrage

Lecturer at CUNY Medgar Evers College (Social & Behavioral Science); Executive Director at World Rhythm Academy

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Peter Clarke

Managing Director, Energy, Sustainability, CBRE

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Robert Cook

Program Director for Environment & Science, The Zegar Family Foundation Senior Science Advisor, The Mayday Fund

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Susanne DesRoches

Vice President of Clean and Resilient Buildings, NYSERDA

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Scott Fisher

Senior VP, EV Business Development and Sales, Voltera

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Michelle Gabriel

Program Director for M.S. in Sustainable Fashion at IENYC

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Donna Givens-Davidson

President and CEO, Eastside Community Network

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Henry Gordon-Smith

Founder & CEO Agritecture

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Anthony Guerrero

Vice President Workplace Experience and Sustainability at Earthjustice

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Wendy Hapgood*

Cofounder and COO, Wild Tomorrow Fund

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Jonathan Hollander

Head of Product CarbonSig

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Sophia Huda

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Bruce Kahn

Senior Portfolio Manager, Shelton Sustainable Equity Fund

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Brian Kavanagh

New York State Senator

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Suzanne Klatt

Vice President ESG & Sustainability, American Express

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Jenna Lawrence*

Lecturer in Discipline, Columbia Climate School

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Eric Maltzer

Director of Sustainable Investment (IFM) in North America

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Kim Matsoukas

Director, Sustainability Coach

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Teri Mendelsohn

Executive Coach at Mendelsohn Consulting

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Amin Mohseni

Macroeconomist, Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center

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Indrani Pal*

Research Scientist, NOAA Center for Earth System Science and Remote Sensing Technologies

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Jason Prince

Cofounder and CEO of Giraffe Financial

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Taylor Pullins

Partner and Head of ESG & Sustainability Specialty Practice, White & Case LLP

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Danielle Reyes

Partner at Goodwin Procter

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Adam Roy Gordon

Executive Director, Global Compact Network USA

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Ralph Schmidt

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Carter Strickland

Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Director of Climate Action, The State University of New York

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Haralambos Vasiliadis

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Antoinette Wannebo

Staff Associate II at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network

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Thomas Abdallah

Deputy Vice President and Chief Environmental Engineer, MTA New York City Transit

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Luke Apicella

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Danielle Azoulay

Vice President of Sustainability and CSR, L’Oréal USA

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Tavis Barr

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Travis Bradford

Founder and President, Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development

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Kizzy Charles-Guzman

Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Environmental Health

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Elizabeth Cline

Author, The Conscious Closet and Overdressed

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Nicole Davi

Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School

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Jonathan Dickinson

Practice Leader, Sustainability and Energy, WSP USA

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Adam Freed

Principal, Sustainability Practice, Bloomberg Associates

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Noa Gafni

Executive Director, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation

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Sara Goddard

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Maria Gray

Director of Curriculum Affairs & Administration, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management & Science, Academic Affairs, Columbia Climate School

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Rhiannon Gulick

Senior Global Practice Specialist DAI

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Alex Heil*

Senior Economist, The Conference Board

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Richard Horsch

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Jeffrey Irvine

Assistant Vice President, Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change, WSP USA

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Koichi Kanaoka

Consultant at World Bank Group

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Vlada Kenniff

President, New York City Public Housing Preservation Trust

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Adriana Kliegman

Design Engineer and Founding Partner, AKA Imagine

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Kenyetta Lovings

Director of Energy Policy, Compliance and Programs at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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Shannon Marquez

Dean of Global Engagement, Columbia University

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Ryan Meinke

Senior Project Director of Sustainability, Energy and Climate Change at WSP USA

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Vance Merolla

Senior Vice President, Global Sustainability, Colgate-Palmolive Company

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Fernando Ortiz

Upper Manhattan & Bronx Borough Director

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Laura Popa

Deputy Commissioner of Sustainability for the New York City Department of Buildings

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Curtis Probst

CEO, New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation

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Michael Puma*

Director and Research Scientist, Center for Climate Systems Research, The Earth Institute

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Lucius Riccio

Executive Vice President and Partner, Gedeon GRC Consulting

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Celine Ruben-Salama*

Principal, FOR THE LONG-TERM LLC

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Alix Schroder

Associate Director, Academic Initiatives, Academic Affairs, Columbia Climate School

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Jessica Thurston

Vice President, ESG Strategy, Paramount Global

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Paul Washington 

President and CEO of the Society for Corporate Governance (the “Society”)

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John Williams*

Director of Student Affairs & DEI, Columbia Climate School

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Carolyn Allwin

US Head of ESG at CAPCO and Venture Partner at Clearstone

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Howard Apsan*

University Director of Environmental, Health, Safety, and Risk Management (EHSRM), The City University of New York

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Jitendra Bajpai

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Ammar Belal*

Founding Partner ONE432

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Allison Bridges

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Clara Cibrario Assereto

Senior Associate - Sustainability, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

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Benjamin Cook

Adjunct Research Scientist, The Earth Institute’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Anne (Nancy) Degnan

Associate Research Scientist, Columbia Water Center, The Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science Adjunct Associate Professor, The School of International and Public Affairs

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Claudia Dreifus

Contributor to The New York Times Science Section

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Franco Fubini

Founder & CEO Natoora

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Daniel Giuffrida

CEO Plankton Energy

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Adela Gondek*

Lecturer in the Faculty of Climate

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Jennye Greene

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Brooke Guven

Managing Director and Head of ESG and Sustainability, Cerberus Capital Management

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Diana Hernandez

Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences

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Shaun Hoyte*

Section Manager, Clean Energy Networks, Con Edison

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Angela Jhanji

Managing Director EQT

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Amy Karpati*

Senior Science Advisor, Teatown Lake Reservation

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Seth Kerschner

Partner White & Case LLP

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Philip LaRocco

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Peter Marcotullio

Director, Center for Sustainable Cities and Professor, CUNY

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Dan Mathis

Policy Fellow at Next100

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Christoph Meinrenken

IKNS Program Director; PI, Climate School; Affiliate, Data Science Institute

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Bhakti Mirchandani

Managing Director, Responsible Investing at Trinity Church Wall Street

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Carl Otto

Corporate Sustainability & ESG Manager at American Express

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Chandler Precht

Director of External Affairs & Communications, Graduate Programs in Sustainability Management & Science, Academic Affairs, Columbia Climate School

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Katrina Prutzman

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Julie Reiss

Independent Art Historian and Critic

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Leslie Rich

Sr. Consultant, DOE Loan Programs Office

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Thomas Sahagian

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Brad Schwartz*

Chief Financial Officer, Encourage Capital

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Diana Trushell

Lecturer in Professional Studies, Sustainability Management

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Jessica Wasser

Manager, Sustainability & ESG, Tapestry, Inc.

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Gregory Yetman

Associate Director for Geospatial Applications, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

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