Dr. Marc A. Weiss

Dr. Marc A. Weiss is the founding Chairman and CEO of Global Urban Development (GUD), a 25-year old nonprofit international policy organization and professional network of more than 1,000 leaders and experts in 67 countries.  Two key global initiatives of GUD are Sustainable Innovation Zones and EnergyNet.  Dr. Weiss is on the faculty at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskona, Sweden, and recently also was a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil.  He previously served as a senior official in the Clinton-Gore Administration at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the President's Council on Sustainable Development, as professor and director of Columbia University's Real Estate Development Research Center, as deputy director of the California Commission on Industrial Innovation, and as coordinator of the 1981 "alternative energy" sustainable economic development strategy for the City of Berkeley. He earned a B.A. at Stanford University and an M.C.P. and Ph.D. at UC Berkeley.