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Social entrepreneur, executive, attorney and educator, William Shutkin has been at the forefront of the urban sustainability field for over three decades. David Brower, the father of the modern environmental movement, described him as “an environmental visionary creating solutions to today’s problems with a passion that would make John Muir and Martin Luther King equally proud.”

Shutkin is Faculty Director and Teaching Professor in the Masters of the Environment program at the ��«����Ƶ, where he leads the Urban Resilience and Sustainability specialization. He is also Co-host of The Sustainable City Podcast and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Climate Resilience and Climate Justice, with MIT Press.

Shutkin is principal of Shutkin Sustainable Living, a social impact development practice based in ��«����Ƶ, Colorado, focused on green, mixed-use, mixed-income, infill development in ��«����Ƶ and other select U.S. cities. To date, SSL has helped deliver over $240MM in development projects, including 200 permanently-affordable housing units and one of the nation’s first permanently-affordable commercial space programs for small businesses and non-profits.

From 2011 to 2016, Shutkin was President and CEO and Richard M. Gray Fellow in Sustainability Practice at Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco. Prior to Presidio, he was on the faculty of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he was director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, and was inaugural chair in sustainable real estate at the ��«����Ƶ Leeds School of Business. From 1999-2009, Shutkin was a faculty member in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and, from 1993-2004, taught at Boston College Law School.  

Shutkin cofounded the Boston-based environmental justice law center, Alternatives for Community & Environment, in 1993 as an Echoing Green Fellow. In 1999, he founded New Ecology, Inc., also based in Boston, which today has over 50 staff with offices in three Northeastern states. NEI made the first business case for greening low-income housing, the landmark 2003 report “The Costs and Benefits of Green Affordable Housing,” and, in partnership with Boston Community Capital, created Wegowise, a best-in-class utility data management and analytics software for multifamily real estate. Wegowise was eventually acquired by Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG technology solution for real estate. From 2004-2006, Shutkin was President and CEO of the Orton Family Foundation, an operating foundation based in ��«����Ƶ and Vermont focused on urban sustainability and technology development, creating CommunityViz, one of the first 3D scenario-planning software products for sustainable communities.

Shutkin has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report and on National Public Radio, as well as the book Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today’s Environmental Problems. He is the author of The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, which won an American Political Science Association Best Book Award and was a Time Magazine Green Century Recommended Book, and A Republic of Trees: Field Notes on People, Place, and the Planet. He received an AB from Brown University and a JD and MA from the University of Virginia. He also completed PhD studies as a Regents Fellow at the University of California Berkeley and attended the Executive Program in Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Shutkin was a law clerk for U.S. District Court Chief Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. He is an avid telemark skier, trail runner, hiker and musician, and a published poet.