
Faculty and Advisors


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
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
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), Google

Patrick Boyle
V at Samuel, Son & Co.
Wil Burns
Visiting Professor of Environmental Policy and Culture at Northwestern University
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, Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
David Donnan
Investor and Partner (Emeritus) at Kearney
Mark Feasel
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at FuelCell Energy
Adrian Gershom
VP, Marketing at c|change; Executive Chair at B Local Illinois
Alison Gilbert
Originations Lead - Specialized and Asset Finance at Macquarie Group
Arathi Gowda
Principal, East Coast Performance Team at ZGF Architects
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, 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
Ian Olson
Senior Director of Global Sustainability at McDonald's Corporation
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; Director of Sustainability Strategy at KPMG
Grace Rumford
MSES Career Coach; Senior Director, Origination at NextEra Energy
Brad Sageman
MSES Academic Director, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University
Tyler Strom
Managing Director of the Illinois Agri-Food Alliance (ILAFA)
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 Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago
Chet White
MSES Career Coach; Vice President of Operations & Asset Management at Reactivate