Matt Petersen, Board Chair

Matt Petersen is the former Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Los Angeles, the first in the city’s history.  In this role, he developed and implemented the City’s first Sustainable City pLAn which is a data-driven pLAn that lays out the long and short term sustainability outcomes for the City of Los Angeles. Under the Mayor’s leadership, Matt was able to bring together Mayors from other cities to combat climate change by playing a major role with organizations such as C40 and the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda.