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NURIT KATZ
UCLA’s first chief sustainability officer, Nurit Katz is working to foster partnerships among academic, research, and operational departments to facilitate creating a world class living laboratory for sustainability at UCLA. As executive officer for UCLA Facilities Management, Katz also provides strategy support to make the university more operationally efficient and coordinates with Emergency Management on resilience planning.
Katz is also an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Sustainability Certificate Program. In 2017, she received the Dean’s Award from UCLA Extension for outstanding instruction and contributions to the UCLA Extension community. She was recognized as one of the top 100 business trailblazers in the “Women Worth Watching 2015” issue of Profiles in Diversity Journal.
She serves on the executive committee of the Luskin Center for Innovation and on the advisory boards of Women in Green and the Southern CA Green Business Council, the Built Environment for the LA Cleantech Incubator, as well as the steering committee for the USGBC Resilience LA Initiative and the leadership team for Path to Positive LA. Katz holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, a Masters in Public Policy from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and a BA in environmental education from Humboldt State University. She was honored as one of UCLA Anderson’s “100 Inspirational Alumni” and Public Policy Alumna of the Year in 2015.
