Paula coordinates a national network of municipal green infrastructure leaders–an effort that stemmed from Philadelphia's ambitious and holistic initiative to transform its vacant lots and stormwater system. Paula is committed to making green stormwater infrastructure work in communities across North America. She is the director of the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange (Exchange), a peer learning network of municipalities, water utilities, and counties seeking to advance their green stormwater infrastructure programs. Prior to the Exchange, she led policy initiatives for Philadelphia’s renowned Green City, Clean Waters program, helping to change “business as usual” to implement over 30 acres of green stormwater infrastructure on vacant lands, parks, streets and private property. Paula also helped to spearhead a state-of-the art drinking water protection program for the city of Philadelphia, helping to raise over $3 million to improve and protect the Schuylkill River Watershed. Prior to that, she consulted on public health and environmental initiatives at Booz Allen Hamilton. Paula is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

Sanjiv has been instrumental in developing and implementing innovative green infrastructure in Milwaukee, Buffalo, Atlanta, and more. Dr. Sinha is a member of the board of directors, and serves as chief sustainability officer and a senior vice president, at ECT. A frequent presenter on topics related to economic instruments in the water infrastructure market, he aspires to make these ideas mainstream. Before ECT, he held a visiting faculty position at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He specializes in open channel flows, ecosystem restoration, and numerical modeling. Outside of ECT, Dr. Sinha serves on the board of Delta Institute, a Chicago nonprofit that builds a resilient environment and economy through sustainable solutions. He also serves as an advisor to the WaterWorks Fund, an equity crowdfunding platform focused on meeting water financing demand across the U.S.

Lisa is directing the formation of the Joint Benefits Authority [PDF] in the Bay Area, a tool that allows multiple city agencies to work together, in collaboration with communities, to finance and deliver transformative and resilient nature-based solutions.

She comes to this work as a manager for Urban Water Infrastructure at the World Resources Institute, where she is responsible for developing and scaling financially innovative, environmentally-sustainable municipal water management solutions in cities across the country. As part of the Cities4Forests and Natural Infrastructure Initiatives at WRI, the goal of this work is to capture the benefits of urban greening through advance capital planning and integrated project delivery that attracts new investment.

Harriet leads the Naturvation initiative–an ambitious, multi-year, EU-wide undertaking that has been working to research, identify and overcome barriers to implementing nature-based solutions. From 2016-2021, she coordinated the initiative’s H2020 project examining the role of urban innovation in nature-based solutions for sustainable development. She has also undertaken commissioned research for the UK Government, the European Commission, various NGOs, UN-Habitat, the OECD and the World Bank, and holds joint appointments as professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University and at Utrecht University’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Her research focuses on environmental governance and the politics of climate change, energy, nature and sustainable cities. Since 2016, Harriet has been included four times in the Highly Cited Researchers list of the top one percent of researchers internationally. In 2019, she was elected as a fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences and the British Academy. She holds a doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge.