MEMBERSHIP

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Marcus T. (Tim) Allen, Ph.D.
CTAR Endowed Professor of Real Estate and Director of the Carter Center for Real Estate at the School of Business and Economics, College of Charleston.

Grant William Austin, MAI, MMRS, M.S., MRICS
Current President of the Institute of Green Professionals, author, expert witness, trial consultant, university course developer/lecturer, market researcher, appraiser, and land economist.

Tamara Bekifi, M.A.
Principle of Daedalus Strategic Marketing.

Tom Daniels, Ph.D.
Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania.

Marc J. Epstein, Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.

Avi Freidman, Ph.D.
Director, McGill School of Architecture, McGill University.

Jason F. McLennan, LEED® AP, CEO
CEO of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, Seattle, WA

Dan Moscovici
Dan Moscovici is a PhD Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Zygmunt J. B. Plater, S.J.D.
Professor of Law at Boston College Law School.

Kim Sorvig, MLA
Research Assistant Professor, Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico.

Mark Stetz, P.E., CMVP, CRM, FIGP
Principal at Stetz Consulting LLC.

Elaine M. Worzala, Ph.D.
Interim Chair, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture
Professor of Real Estate, College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities
Director, Center for Real Estate Development, Clemson University.

Detailed Bios

CTAR Endowed Professor of Real Estate and Director of the Carter Center for Real Estate at the School of Business and Economics, College of Charleston.  Professor Allen has published more than 60 academic and professional writings in top-ranked research journals and has made more than 30 professional presentations to groups around the world. He has received several research awards from organizations such as the American Real Estate Society and the Academy of Business Disciplines. He has received numerous distinguished teaching awards, including recognition from Lambda Alpha international as an outstanding educator in the field of land economics. He currently sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals and is an active member of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the American Real Estate Society , the Southern Finance Association, the National Association of Realtors, the Institute of Green Professionals, and several other local and national organizations.

He is a Licensed Real Estate Broker in South Carolina and Florida and a State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. He maintains an active consulting practice involving advanced econometric and statistical tools for litigation support, property valuation, and investment analysis with an emphasis on special-use properties.

Professor Allen holds the Charleston Trident Association of Realtors Endowed Professorship in the School of Business and Economics and is the Director of the Carter Real Estate Center at the College of Charleston. He earned his doctorate in REal Estate Finance and Economics from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia in 1992. He spent the first 17 years of his academic career at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton/Ft. Lauderdale) where he earned the rank of tenured full professor and served as the Director of the Real Estate Program in the Barry Kaye College of Business.

IGP’s current President is an author, expert witness, trial consultant, university course developer/lecturer, expert in the green-built environment, market researcher, appraiser and land economist. As the Institute's President, Mr. Austin has led it from conception to its current place in global sustainability with a significant number of the world's leading academics and professionals as Members, and supported by some of the leading academic institutions and numerous corporations.  In addition to his professional designations (MAI member of the Appraisal Institute, MMRS member of the Market Research Society, and RICS Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), Mr. Austin holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Appraisal, is a Professional Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the honorary land economics society, Lambda Alpha International and the Past President of its South Florida Chapter, an Associate Member of the Environmental Law Institute, a national Individual Allied Member of the American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment (COTE), a Member of the North American Association for Environmental Education, and a Member of the Society of Building Science Educators and a Member of its National BIM Standard (NIMBS) Project Committee. Mr. Austin is currently a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors EU Advisory Group on Sustainable Property Investment & Management, a Member of the Review Board of the Journal of Sustainability Education, and an Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate from University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate.   Mr. Austin has been an Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University and the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis), and is currently a faculty member at Boston Architectural College. 

Mr. Austin is the President of American Valuation, Inc.  The firm's Real Property Valuation Section with a history of specializing in litigation and eminent domain valuation for many of America's leading corporations such as  Exxon/Mobil, Walgreen Co., Lennar Homes, and Simon Property Group.   American Valuation also has a Trial Consultancy Section, and a Sustainabilty Section.  The Sustainability section provides:

• Financial feasibility analysis of sustainability characteristics in new construction, existing buildings, new communities (PUDs)
• Analysis of green features in the marketplace
• Integration of sustainability into property risk assessments and rewards
• Real property consulting in the context of Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Principal of Daedalus Strategic Advising, a firm focused on sustainability and corporate social and political risk management. Until recently, Ms. Bekefi was the manager of business and international development research and a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
With expertise in corporate responsibility, corporate political and social risk measurement and management, and sustainable private sector development, Ms. Bekefi has worked with Fortune 500 companies, industry organizations and social investment firms. These include Starbucks Coffee Company, Campbell Soup Company, ExxonMobil, Phillips-Van Heusen, IPIECA (International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association), and KLD Research & Analytics.

Author of numerous papers, articles, reports, and management guidelines, Tamara has lectured at leading universities and corporate forums. She has a Masters degree in international business and political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) and graduated with a BA, summa cum laude, from McGill University. (tbekefi@daedalusadvising.com) 

Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Daniels is a Full Professor who directs the concentration in Environmental Planning and Growth Management. Tom's main areas of interest are farmland preservation, growth management, and connection between land use and water quality.

Tom often serves as a consultant to state and local governments and land trusts. He lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where for nine years he managed the county's nationally-recognized farmland preservation program.

Tom is the author of When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe (1999), and co-author of Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farmland (1997) and The Environmental Planning Handbook (2003), published by the American Planning Association.

Tom has taught at SUNY-Albany, Kansas State University, and Iowa State University. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Planning Association, and in 2002 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. 

Dr. Marc J. Epstein is Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He was also recently Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Rice, Dr. Epstein was a professor at Stanford Business School, Harvard Business School, and INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration).

Dr. Epstein has completed extensive academic research and has extensive practical experience in the implementation of corporate strategies and the development of performance metrics for use in these implementations. In several recent articles and books Dr. Epstein shows how the use of new strategic management systems can help companies focus strategy, link to performance metrics, and drive improved performance in organizations. In a recent book, he applies these approaches to driving increased innovation in large organizations and developing appropriate measures of success. Making Innovation Work: How to Manage It, Measure It, and Profit from It is now available from Wharton School Publishing. 

Avi Friedman began his architectural studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1980 (first in class/cum laude) and his Master of Architecture from McGill University in Montréal. Between 1982 and 1984, Dr. Friedman worked as head of design for a homebuilding firm in Montréal. He received his Doctorate in 1987 from the Université de Montréal. In 1988 he co-founded the Affordable Homes Program, which he currently directs, at the McGill School of Architecture, where he is a Professor.

Dr. Friedman’s research interests focus on factors which influence the design and implementation of affordable and sustainable building practices at the unit and community levels, including market acceptance, construction, and resource efficiency. He is the recipient of several research awards, including the Progressive Architecture Research Award, the J.-Armand-Bombardier Prize for Technological Innovation, and the Manning Innovation Award of Distinction.

Avi Friedman has published extensively in both academic and trade publications. He has authored books, wrote peer-reviewed articles and conference papers on subjects ranging from construction technology to suburban planning and space management, for academic journals and conferences. Dr. Friedman is a member of the editorial board of architectural journals and authored research monographs and articles in trade publications in the U.S. and Canada. Since the year 2000, he has written a syndicated column called Forward Thinking for the Canwest chain of daily newspapers.

Dr. Friedman is a member of the Order of Architects of Quebec and the principal of Avi Friedman Consultants, Inc. He heads up an architectural practice which designed numerous projects. His work has included conversion of industrial buildings to residential, urban renewal, private residences, and community planning. He has also consulted Canadian and U.S. cities and housing authorities on affordable housing initiatives.

Jason McLennan serves as the CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest's leading organization in the field of green building and sustainable development. Cascadia is a chapter of both the US Green Building Council and the Canadian Green Building Council. Jason is the author of the Living Building Challenge and international green building program and co-creator of Pharos, the most advanced building material rating system in North America. Jason is known as an international thought leader in the green architecture movement and has lectured on sustainability across the US and Canada. His work in the sustainable design field has been published or reviewed in dozens of journals, magazines, conference proceedings and books including Architecture, Architectural Record, Dwell, Plenty, Metropolis, NY Times, The Globe and Mail, The World and I, Ecostructure and Environmental Design and Construction Magazine. He is the author of three books; The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, The Dumb Architect's Guide to Glazing Selection, and The Ecological Engineer.  The Philosophy of Sustainable Design is currently used as a textbook in over 40 universities and colleges and is distributed widely throughout Europe and North America.

He is a former Principal at BNIM Architects, one of the founders of the green design movement in the United States, where he worked on many of the leading high performance projects in the country including LEED Platinum, Gold and Zero Energy projects. At BNIM he created the building science team known as Elements, which set new standards for energy and resource efficiency on many of its projects in various building types. Jason is also the founder and CEO of Ecotone Publishing, the only dedicated green building publisher in North America. Jason was recently named one of the top 40 under 40 most influential individuals in the design and construction field by Building Design and Construction magazine.

Dan Moscovici is a PhD Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, with an anticipated graduation date of May 2009. His doctorate work is focused on critiquing current environmental problems, specifically in regards to land preservation, sustainability, and natural resource management on public and private lands.

Dan is also currently an adjunct professor at Arcadia University, where he teaches undergraduates in the Department of International Studies and the Department of Liberal Studies. His courses focus on global issues related to the environment. He also leads field courses overseas that endeavor to contemplate, demonstrate and research sustainable development through global paradigms. Dan is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Master’s of Environmental Studies program.

Dan’s previous experience includes five years as a business analyst for CITGO Petroleum, a division of Petrol de Venezuela, S.A. He also played an integral role in the creation of an Environmental Advisory Commission (EAC) ordinance and was a member of the EAC near his home in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania. His previous educational experience includes: a B.S. in International Economics from Lehigh University, with a focus on natural resources; an M.B.A. in International Management from Villanova University, with a focus on environmental management; and an M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on watershed planning and land preservation. 

Zygmunt J. B. Plater is Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, teaching and researching in the areas of environmental, property, land use, and administrative agency law. Over the past 25 years he has been involved with a number of issues of environmental protection and land use regulation, including service as petitioner and lead counsel in the extended endangered species litigation over the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam, representing the endangered snail darter, farmers, Cherokee Indians, and environmentalists in the Supreme Court of the United States, federal agencies, and congressional hearings. He was chairman of the State of Alaska Oil Spill Commission’s Legal Task Force over a two-year period after the wreck of the M/V Exxon-Valdez. He was a consultant to plaintiffs in the Woburn toxic litigation, Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace et al., the subject of the book and movie A Civil Action.
Professor Plater has taught on seven law faculties. While teaching public law for three years in the national university of Ethiopia, he redrafted the laws protecting parks and refuges, assisted in publication of the Consolidated Laws of Ethiopia, and helped organize the first United Nations Conference on Individual Rights in Africa.
Articles Professor Plater has published include analyses of environmental law issues, private and public rights in land and resources, equitable discretion, administrative law, and related fields. Several of his articles have been cited in Supreme Court decisions. He is lead author of Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society, now in its third edition, Aspen Publishers, 2004. His most recent articles focus on the interaction among environment, economics, and social governance. He was voted the recipient of the Emil Slizewski Faculty Excellence Award by the BCLS Class of 2000.
EDUCATION
A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Yale University; LL.M., S.J.D., University of Michigan.

Kim Sorvig, Research Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Planning, UNM, has published widely on sustainability and interpretation of landscapes. His book, Sustainable Landscape Construction, is in international use as a text and professional reference; its second edition was released in Fall 2007.  A long-time Contributing Editor to Landscape Architecture magazine, he has won writing prizes from the ASLA, The European Association for Architectural Education, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. His consulting firm, Meaningful Places, is developing a master plan for a new botanic gardens in northwestern New Mexico, which will interpret arid-region landscape issues in a public setting, a teaching environment about how plants contribute to both sustainability and cultural adaptation.

His research focuses on the how cultural attitudes toward land and methods of land development can enhance or impair environmental services on which humans depend.  He lives in an underground passive-solar near Cerrillos, NM. 

Mr. Stetz has 15 years experience as a consulting engineer in the energy-efficiency and renewable energy field. Current activities include conducting energy audits saving customers energy and money, documenting savings from efficiency projects through rigorous measurement & verification, M&V plan and protocol development, supporting government and utility energy-efficiency programs, economic analysis of energy-efficiency and renewable-energy upgrades, and training. He is a Professional Engineer, a Certified Measurement & Verification Professional (CMVP) and a Certified Carbon Reduction Manager (CRM). Mr. Stetz is the Principal of Stetz Consulting LLC (www.statzconsulting.com) and can be contacted at mark@stetzconsulting.com or 415-240-4710.

Dr. Worzala is the Director of the Center for Real Estate Development and a Professor of Real Estate in the College of Architecture Arts and Humanities at Clemson University. Before joining Clemson, she was the Professor and the Director of the Accelerated Masters of Science in Real Estate in the Edward St. John Department of Real Estate at the Carey Business School within Johns Hopkins University. She has also served as the MSRE Director and the Research Director at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego and she began her academic career in the Finance Department at Colorado State University. She has also been a Visiting Professor with the Real Estate Center at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Worzala has taught numerous real estate courses including introductory real estate, real estate valuations, real estate feasibility, real estate finance and investments, and a graduate level real estate investments case course. In addition, she was the interim Assistant Provost for USD in the 2004/05 academic year.