Dennis Carlberg, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Chief Sustainability Officer & Associate Vice President for Climate Action, Boston University

Dennis Carlberg is the Chief Sustainability Officer & Associate Vice President for Climate Action at Boston University where he focuses on building the programs necessary for mitigating BU’s impacts on climate change, preparing its campuses for climate change, and supporting the integration of sustainability into the curriculum. Prior to joining BU in 2009, Dennis was a principal at Arrowstreet, a Boston-based architectural firm where he focused on sustainable design. He began his career at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Lab) conducting daylighting research to reduce building energy consumption and improve the indoor environment.

Dennis co-chairs the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Higher Ed Working Group. He is the University’s Liaison to the University Climate Change Coalition, a group of 23 of leading R1 research universities committed to accelerating climate action on their campuses, in their communities, and collaboratively at the global scale.

He received his Master of Architecture from MIT and his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley.