Mark Lichtenstein, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York

Mark Lichtenstein is the executive operating officer, chief sustainability officer, and environmental studies adjunct faculty at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), and a faculty associate in Syracuse University’s Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration. He served eight terms as president and is an honorary board member of the National Recycling Coalition; co-led the formation of national and regional recycling organizations in the US; and, conceived of and helped create the New York State Center for Sustainable Materials Management, the first of its kind in the US. He helped lead the first national (US) Sustainable Materials Management Summit focused on the circular economy, developed and led a regional sustainable materials management program in upstate New York, and traded the first recyclables through the Chicago Board of Trade. Lichtenstein is involved in sustainability and regenerative community efforts throughout the US, Caribbean, and Central and South America. He is a Planet Forward advisory council member (George Washington University), board leader for ViequesLove (Puerto Rico) and Island Green Living Association (US Virgin Islands), Green VI (British Virgin Islands) advisor, and Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Recycling Partnerships and Vieques Sustainability Task Force (established by US President Barack Obama) facilitator. He has a Master of Arts in Public Administration, and a Graduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in Conflict Resolution, both from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, and an ESF Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies.

Mark Lichtenstein