Hillary Brown, AIA, is Professor, Bernard & Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. She is also a principal of New Civic Works, which assists public and institutional clients in greening their facility capital programs. As former founder of the Office of Sustainable Design with the NYC's Department of Design and Construction, she oversaw its 1999 collaboration with the Design Trust, the High Performance Building Guidelines, and more recently co-authored the High Performance Infrastructure Guidelines.

Hillary has served on national and local Boards of the U.S. Green Building Council. She teaches sustainable design at Princeton and Columbia University Schools of Architecture. Ms. Brown was a 2000 Loeb Fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and a Bosch Public Policy Fellow in 2001 at the American Academy in Berlin.