Executive Director
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Feb 2023 - Present
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Michel Gelobter Email & Phone Number
Executive Director, Yale Center for Environmental Justice
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Yale Center for Environmental Justice
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Executive Director, Yale Center for Environmental Justice
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Michel Gelobter is listed as Executive Director, Yale Center for Environmental Justice at Yale Center for Environmental Justice, based in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at yale.edu, phone signal with area code 510, 917, 212, 504, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Michel Gelobter.
Michel Gelobter previously worked as Executive Director at Yale Center For Environmental Justice and Advisor, Early-Stage Product Pipeline at X, The Moonshot Factory. Michel Gelobter holds Phd, Energy & Resources from University Of California, Berkeley.
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About Michel Gelobter
Michel has been A leader and senior manager in government, academia, advocacy, and business. He has worked for environmental justice since the field and the movement's very first days and on climate change for over three decades. He has extensive experience building new institutions and driving social and technical innovation in the private, public, & non-profit sectors. Michel is presently the inaugural Executive Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, and advises Google X (the Moonshot Company). His private sector work includes the founding of Cooler (a company whose mission is to connect every consumer purchase to a solution for global warming) and BuildingEnergy.com. He served as Chief Green Officer for Hara, the leading enterprise energy and environmental management software startup, acquired by Verisae.Beyond business, Michel also has a long history in research and teaching, policy, and advocacy. He has been a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley and presently serves on the Boards of New Energy Nexus, Ceres, and co-chairs the Green Leadership Trust. He led Redefining Progress in designing the world’s most aggressive climate legislation (AB32 -- signed into California law in August of 2006), was a Congressional Black Caucus Fellow with the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, Director of Environmental Quality for the City of New York, and founding director of the Environmental Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He also served as Issues Director for Mayor Dinkins' campaign for Mayor of New York.Michel earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D at U.C. Berkeley (where he wrote the first dissertation and taught the first-ever class on environmental justice) and is an alumnus of Deep Springs College. Michel holds two provisional patents for dynamic carbon footprinting and is the author of a number of academic and popular articles including "The Soul of Environmentalism". He is an avid father and wilderness backpacker.
Listed skills include Sustainability, Climate Change, Nonprofits, Entrepreneurship, and 27 others.
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22 roles · 39 years
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Apr 2021 - Present
Co-Founder/Executive Chair
Current
Jun 2020 - Present
Program Director/Lecturer
Current
Yale University, U.C. Berkeley, Singularity University
• Lecturer, Yale School of the Environment• Founding Director, Singularity University Energy & Environment Track• Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley
Sep 2001 - Present
Managing Director
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Director, Innovation & Sustainability/Energy Practices
Helping Fortune 100 companies grow sustainably and develop an innovation metabolism.
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Director Sustainability & Energy Practice
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
Author, Trainer, Change Agent
Lean Startups For Social Change
See my blog entry on why I wrote this book... http://www.leanchange.net/blog/why-i-wrote-the-book/
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
Interim Ceo
Led scaling of and revenue generation for one of the earliest US groups focused on moving under-resourced youth of color & LGBTQ youth into entrepreneurial tech careers. Managed the first phase of the organization’s strategic plan to scale nationally to transform community threats from tech into opportunities. (on partial leave from infoedge)
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Senior Associate
Strategic Planning/Change Management in Intransigent Situations
Aug 2009 - Jan 2015
Senior Fellow
• Piloted programs on innovative philanthropic and NGO strategies for climate mitigation; experimented with competitive approaches in Turkey, Australia & Indonesia, developed prize-based strategies and programs to build capacity for innovation.
Jul 2013 - Nov 2014
Co-Founder
Building Energy Inc.
• Built the fastest growing platform for building energy data and applications• Developed Minimal Viable Product• Led initial marketing and sales through present customer base, including the U.S. Department of Energy
2012 - 2013
~1 yr
Founder & Chairman
Climate Cooler
• Created first automatic carbon and energy footprinting technology applicable to any product or service, available on the web and iPhone.• Built first carbon-neutral shopping mall (online) with access to hundreds of stores and millions of products.• Integrated push-button carbon footprinting in Quickbooks, the world’s largest small business accounting system.• Developed and deployed first footprinting tool for used and salvage goods across entire the eBay platform & the General Services Administration, covering over $2 billion of product reuse in governments, federal to local.Clients include Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, the U.S. General Services Administration, eBay, Intuit (http://green.intuit.com), Citizens Bank.
Jan 2007 - Dec 2011
Chief Green Officer
Hara Software, Inc.
• Led domain–based marketing, sales, & customer engagements for enterprise-wide energy and sustainability management software startup (eBay, HP, Li & Fung, Reed Elsevier, NewsCorp)• Drove domain-based services and product innovation on data acquisition, data quality, benchmarking, and analytics.• Opened the Federal market, including enterprise-wide at U.S. Department of Energy.• Led corporate legislative, regulatory, and policy initiatives, up to and including meetings with the U.S. President.• Represented company as “C-level” face of company at major events, domestic, international, and online/webinars (often over 1,000 enrollees).
Sep 2009 - Nov 2011
Executive Director
• Led organization that initiated and co-developed (with the state Assembly) the world’s most aggressive global warming law, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) and incorporated revenue-generating ($450M+ annual) provisions in climate rules governing 11 Northeastern States• Set strategic direction and developed leadership staff for programs that have spawned global movements in climate justice, localization, and national indicators of happiness/well-being (incl. the Ecological Footprint and the Happiness/Genuine Progress Index)• Transformed the country’s only national sustainability policy institute from pure research to strategic change and communications focus with extensive partnerships, targeted messaging, and product offerings to media, government, business, and the public
Jun 2001 - Oct 2006
Assistant Professor
Established Community-Academic Partnerships for the Environment (CAPE, formerly CUCREJ) a NJ/NY/PR community-based research consortium.
Sep 1996 - Jun 2001
Founding Director & Professor, Environmental Policy Program
Jun 1992 - Jun 1996
Assistant Commissioner/Director Of Environmental Quality
• Led policy & strategic capital planning ($1.5billion/yr) for water supply, sewage treatment & the environment.• Introduced demand-side management programs that reduced per capita water consumption by over 40% in the following decade• Created the nation’s first community-wide comprehensive environmental risk assessment and remediation program, the City's alternative fuels programs, and a number of private-public partnerships for environmental protection and pollution prevention.
Jan 1990 - Sep 1992
Issues Director
Dinkins For Mayor
• Developed & coordinated media events to highlight candidate’s positions.• Managed issues team.• Wrote and/or edited speeches, policy statements, press releases, position papers and debate briefing materials.
1989 - 1990
~1 yr
Professional Staff/Congressional Black Caucus Fellow
U.S. House Of Representatives, Energy And Commerce Committee (Full Committee, Chair: John Dingell)
• Drafted successful legislation on lead in drinking water, on long-term environmental problems at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons facilities, and on closing loopholes for the Department of Defense in hazardous waste management. • Convened global warming working group of high-level Capitol Hill and Deputy-Secretary rank staff, leading environmental organizations, and industry trade organizations.
1988 - 1990
~2 yrs
Assistant Producer/Aaas Mass Media Science Fellow
• Produced segments for a daily science news show; wrote scripts; field produced segments on science education & zoology.
May 1986 - Oct 1986
Researcher
• Linked global energy use modeling with global warming models
May 1985 - Sep 1985
8 education records
Michel Gelobter education
Phd, Energy & Resources
University Of California, Berkeley
Ms, Energy & Resources
University Of California, Berkeley
Bs, Conservation & Resource Studies
University Of California, Berkeley
Education record
Deep Springs College
Education record
Rockwood Leadership
Education record
Communications Leadership Institute
Bacalaureat Francais
Lycee Francais De New York
Homiletics
College Of Preachers, National Cathedral
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Michel Gelobter is listed as Executive Director, Yale Center for Environmental Justice at Yale Center for Environmental Justice.
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Michel Gelobter is based in New Haven, Connecticut, United States while working with Yale Center for Environmental Justice.
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Michel Gelobter has worked for Yale Center For Environmental Justice, X, The Moonshot Factory, Cooler, Yale University, U.C. Berkeley, Singularity University, and Reflective Earth.
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Michel Gelobter holds Phd, Energy & Resources from University Of California, Berkeley.
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Michel Gelobter is listed with skills including Sustainability, Climate Change, Nonprofits, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, Strategic Planning, Environmental Policy, and Program Management.
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