IMT Board

David B. Goldstein, Chair  Photo of David Goldstein, IMT board chair

David Goldstein founded the Institute for Market Transformation and now serves as the Chair of IMT's board.  He is the Energy Program Co-Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and has worked on energy efficiency and energy policy since the 1970s.

Dr. Goldstein has been instrumental in the development of energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances currently in effect at the regional and national level in the United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, and China.

David received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of its Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2002 and the California Alumni Association's 2003 Award for Excellence in Achievement.  He is the author of Saving Energy, Growing Jobs.

Peter Graham

Dr. Peter Graham is Executive Director of the Global Buildings Performance Network, the new ClimateWorks Best Practices Network addressing the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from the buildings sector. Peter has been the Technical Advisor and past Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative where he has developed and managed many of UNEP’s key projects and publications in the building sector. He comes to the GBPN from a position as Head of Discipline for Architecture & Design at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. In these roles Peter worked closely with the public, civil, and private sectors to assist the global transition to a sustainable building and construction industry.

Adam HingePhoto of IMT board member Adam Hinge

Adam Hinge is the managing director of Sustainable Energy Partnerships, a small consulting firm specializing in energy efficiency program and policy issues. Sustainable Energy Partnerships works to initiate and implement viable energy efficiency projects in North America and developing countries around the world.  Hinge works as an advisor to utilities, government agencies and others in developing energy efficiency market transformation initiatives.  Recent clients of Sustainable Energy Partnerships include the United Nations Development Program, the National Development and Reform Commission of China, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, the World Bank, the International Copper Association, the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, and numerous private energy services providers and consumers. 

Hinge has degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is a registered Professional Engineer in New York, and serves as an Adjunct Research Scholar for Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, a policy research center that is part of School of International and Public Affairs.

Charlotte Matthews  

Charlotte Matthews in the Vice President of Sustainability for Related Companies, directing corporate sustainability strategy and overseeing green development activites.  Related is a real estate developer/owner/manager with a portfolio valued at $12 billion.  The company is in the pre-development stage of a 26-acre mixed-use neighborhood development in midtown Manhattan.

Ms. Matthews is a member of New York City's Green Codes Industry Advisory Committee that reviews and advises on department rules, legislation, research and financing strategies concerning existing building retrofits and new construction. She is a special advisor to Columbia University's Masters in Real Estate Development program. 

Prior to joining Related, Ms. Matthews was a Senior Sustainability Manager with Bovis Lend Lease and a green building consultant with Steven Winter Associates. She is a past member of the USGBC's LEED for Labs and LEED for New Construction Core Committees and former chair of Boston's AIA-Committee on the Environment.  She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Brown University.

Alan S. Miller

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Alan Miller is a climate change and global environmental expert with more than 30 years experience.  He currently is Principal Climate Change Specialist in the Environment Department at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group with general responsibility for climate change policy and analysis.  Prior to joining the IFC in October 2003 he was Climate Change manager at the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat overseeing a portfolio of more than 100 clean energy projects in developing countries.  He is a widely published author on climate change, energy, and development including a leading environmental law textbook.  His degrees are from Cornell University (A.B., Government 1971) and University of Michigan (J.D. and M.P.P. 1974).  He was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia (1977) and Japan (1987).

Paul Waide

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Paul Waide became the Director of Navigant Consulting's European Energy Practice in July 2009.

From March 2004 until July 2009 he was Senior Policy Analyst in the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division of the International Energy Agency, where he had a prominent role in expanding the agency's work on energy efficiency. While at the IEA he helped the G8 countries to develop their plan of action addressing Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development and initiated a process of developing energy efficiency policy recommendations that led to the endorsement of 25 major energy efficiency policy recommendations by the G8 heads of state and IEA member governments.  He has provided analysis for the IEA's influential long-range energy scenarios including the World Energy Outlook and Energy Technologies Perspectives publications and is the principal author of some of the agency's main publications addressing energy efficiency policy and technology

He has a Ph.D in Applied Energy from Cranfield University, a M.Sc. from Surrey University and a B.Sc. in Physics from Liverpool University.