
Faculty and Advisors


Said Al-Hallaj
CEO and co-founder at All Cell Technologies; Research Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago
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 Associate 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
David Chen
Adjunct Professor of Finance, Faculty Lead of Impact Investing at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
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
Dan Hahn
Partner, Global Energy Providers Practice Lead at Guidehouse
Martin Hanna
MSES Career Coach and Program Advisor; formerly Head of Communications at GreenStruxure
Karin Hamel
MSES Career Coach; President at PremiStar
Megan Kashner
Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Impact at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
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
Mark Lillie
Former Chief Counsel at the Federal Highway Administration; Former Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Sarene Marshall
Chief Sustainability Officer at Galway Sustainable Capital
Tom O'Flynn
Venture Partner at Energy Impact Partners; Board Director at TransAlta; Lead Operating Director at Dimension Energy (a Partners Group Co.)
Ian Olson
Senior Director of Global Sustainability at McDonald's Corporation
Nicholas Pearce
Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
Alex Polzin
Clinical Assistant Professor & Deputy Director of the Master of Science in Energy & Sustainability (MSES)
Mark Pruitt
Principal at The Power Bureau, LLC
Aurelie Richard
MSES Career Coach; Chief Human Development and Strategy Officer at S&C Electric Company
Grace Rumford
MSES Career Coach; Director of Integrated Clean Energy Solutions at NextEra Energy
Brad Sageman
MSES Academic Director, Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University
Shashank Sane
MSES Career Coach; EVP Transmission at Invenergy
Craig Sieben
Director of Energy Services at AECOM
Brian Tolliver
Corporate Development and Strategy Leader
Klaus Weber
Professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management
George Wells
Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University
Joseph Wemhoff
Adjunct Instructor of Finance Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago
Chet White
Vice President of Operations & Asset Management at Reactivate
Mark Witte
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Instruction in Economics at Northwestern University