
Faculty and Advisors


Jessica C. Adelman
Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Mars Wrigley North America
Said Al-Hallaj
CEO and co-founder at All Cell Technologies; Research Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago
Craig Arnold
MSES Career Coach; Sustainability Consultant, TASA Analytics, LLC
Dr. Amanda M. Bachmann
Nuclear Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory
Achal Bassamboo
Charles E. Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences Professor of Operations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
Kathia Benitez
MSES Career Coach; Director, Sustainability, Compliance, Health & Safety at Discover Financial Services
Alaina Bookstein
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Development at GridCARE
Holly Benz
Clinical Professor & Director of the Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability (MSES)
Tom Biegala
Founding Partner at Bison Ventures
Jessica Bollhoefer
MSES Career Coach; Global Lead for Carbon + Energy, Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) at Google

Patrick Boyle
Director of Sustainability at Reyes Holdings
Meghan Busse
Associate Professor of Strategy at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
Jenny Carney
Vice President of Sustainability, Energy, and Climate Change at WSP
Sailesh Chutani
Fellow at Northwestern's Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
David Donnan
Investor and Partner (Emeritus) at Kearney
Mark Feasel
Founder and Principal Consultant at VisRete
Adrian Gershom
Principal at Offshoot Consulting; Advisory Board at B Local Illinois
Alison Gilbert
Originations Lead - Specialized and Asset Finance at Macquarie Group
Erin Grossi
at TRC Companies
Dan Hahn
Partner, Global Energy Providers Practice Lead at Guidehouse
Karin Hamel
MSES Career Coach; President and CEO - Sustainable Industries & Buildings at Veolia North America
Jonathan Hargrove
Chief Revenue Officer at RPower
Nancy Himmelfarb
MSES Career Coach; Principal at Himmelfarb Sustainability Consulting
Lynne Kiesling
Director of the Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics at Northwestern Pritzker's Center on Law, Business, and Economics; Research Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver
Kristen King
MSES Career Coach; Director of Sustainability at James Hardie
Michael Legatt
CEO and Founder at ResilientGrid
Mark Lillie
Former Chief Counsel at the Federal Highway Administration; Former Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Jacob Madsen
MSES Career Coach; Senior Director, Climate Solutions at Persefoni
Sarene Marshall
Chief Sustainability Officer at Galway Sustainable Capital
Chris Moscardelli
Chief Financial Officer at SOO Green
Bala Nagarajan
MSES Career Coach; Managing Director, Energy at S2G Ventures
Tunde Onitiri
Senior Advisor, Emerging Markets Investments
Jane Park
MSES Career Coach; Founder and CEO at Seneca Point Strategies
Natalie Persky
MSES Career Coach; Associate Director of Environmental Sustainability at AbbVie
Alex Polzin
Clinical Assistant Professor & Deputy Director of the Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability (MSES)
Mark Pruitt
Principal at The Power Bureau, LLC
Matt Roling
MSES Career Coach; Clinical Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Abrams Climate Academy at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
Grace Rumford
MSES Career Coach; Senior Originator at Constellation
Brad Sageman
MSES Academic Director, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University
Tyler Strom
Managing Director at Illinois Agri-Food Alliance (ILAFA)
Sarah Thuo
Partner/Principal, Supply Chain at EY-Parthenon
Brian Tolliver
CEO and Founder at Banyon Power
Klaus Weber
Professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
Joseph Wemhoff
Adjunct Instructor of Finance at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business
Chet White
MSES Career Coach; Vice President of Operations & Asset Management at Reactivate
Mark Witte
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Instruction in Economics at Northwestern University