Don Anderson

Don Anderson has been elected to the board of the Green Building Certification Institute, which administers certifications and professional designations under the USGBC’s LEED green building rating system. Currently the chief sustainability officer for Blackstone, an investment and advisory firm headquartered in New York, Anderson is responsible for developing sustainability initiatives for the firm’s portfolio companies. Before joining Blackstone in 2011, he consulted both the USGBC and EPA’s Energy Star teams on benchmarking and portfolio-level performance improvement. Anderson also supported the development of similar programs in China and India.