Veteran Environmental and Energy Policy Expert Roger Platt Named USGBC’s SVP Global

Platt as the Senior Vice President, Global Policy and Law, a new position in the organization effective
September 1, 2009.
“Roger will be an incredible addition to our team,” said Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and Founding
Chair, USGBC and CEO, GBCI. “He has a unique perspective on how public-private-non-profit
alliances are redefining how important work gets done in the US, and increasingly around the world. It
takes a rare kind of leadership talent to get diverse people to the table and inspire them to success in
hammering out the details that define good policy. Roger is a veteran Washington expert at this, and
his contributions to USGBC in this new role will give us new capacity both here and around the world.”
“USGBC is clearly setting the agenda for how the wholesale shift to greener, more efficient buildings
and communities will happen,” said Platt. “And they’ve done it by being clear in their vision and
relentless in their execution. I’ve been inspired by the partnerships we’ve done together and impressed
by the organization’s management from my seat on the USGBC board. To be able to contribute more
directly to that success in this new role is very exciting.”
Platt joins USGBC after a very successful 15 years as senior vice president and counsel with the Real
Estate Roundtable, which represents the leaders of America’s top public and privately owned real
estate entities on public policy issues. There Roger pioneered a series of high-profile collaborations
between the Roundtable and environmental and non-profit organizations to advance responsible public
policy. These include working with the Clinton Climate Initiative’s global program on large energy
retrofits; Environmental Defense Fund and the Nature Conservancy on multi-species land use
planning; the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Smart Growth America on smarter growth, including the
recycling of Brownfield’s properties; the Environmental Protection Agency on the launch of the Energy
Star Building Label program; the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on tax incentives for
ultra-efficient commercial buildings; and most recently with NRDC and USGBC on how greener, more
efficient buildings can be part of the solution to energy and climate protection challenges.
Before joining the Real Estate Roundtable, he was a consultant to President Clinton’s then newly
formed Corporation for National and Community Service. Prior to that he worked as a senior associate
practicing in the area of urban land use and real estate development and transactions at a San
Francisco-based law firm. Roger received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and hislaw degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.