ADVISORY BOARD
Robert K. Watson
Chairman, CEO & Chief Scientist: Ecotech International
Mr. Watson is one of the pioneers of the modern Green Building Movement and the Founding Chairman of the LEED Green Building Rating System of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). He is the Chairman, CEO and Chief Scientist of The EcoTech International Group (ETI) and its subsidiaries American SinoTech and American IndoTech, which he founded in 2007 to meet the demand for green building technologies and services in China, India and the United States. Former Director of the Green Building and International Energy Programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Mr. Watson has over twenty years experience on five continents improving the environmental performance of buildings, utilities and transportation through energy and building policy and program development, integrated design solutions, and clean building technologies. Mr. Watson was the only foreigner to have been honored by China's Ministry Of Construction (MOC) with its first Green Innovation Award in Beijing in 2005. In 2002, he was the first recipient of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership Award for his work as the "Father of LEED." Watson’s work on green buildings in China and green technology in general has been featured several times by New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, and in numerous publications including Fortune Magazine and The Economist. Mr. Watson received an MBA from Columbia University, has a MS degree from the University of California, Berkeley Energy Resources Group (ERG) and is a graduate of Dartmouth College where he was a Senior Fellow. In 1993, Watson was the First Environmental Fellow at the Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California, Davis.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Watson_%28Founding_Chairman_of_LEED%29
