Bill Becker is Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project.

Bill Becker is the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project and the organizer of the "National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America", a series of four conferences in 2006 and 2007 to advance America's sustainability in a time of global warming.

The Presidential Climate Action Project is one of several initiatives that have emerged from the summits so far. Another is the "Wingspread Principles on the U.S. Response to Global Warming," a document authored by Bill and signed by many of the nation's climate leaders to begin speaking in a unified voice about the nation's responsibility to address climate change.

Before he joined the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center in January 2007 to direct the Presidential Climate Action Project, Bill was senior advisor to the Global Energy Center for Community Sustainability and an adjunct faculty member in the Colorado Energy Research Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. He served both functions while on sabbatical from the U.S. Department of Energy, where he was Director of DOE's Central Regional Office, overseeing a staff of 30 and nearly $50 million annually in federal programs to commercialize energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. He retired from DOE on Jan. 1, 2007

More recently, he organized and led a team of US sustainable design experts to Beijing to help Chinese officials "greening" of the Olympic Village for the 2008 Olympic Games. In 2006, he participated on a small team of experts who traveled to Thailand to provide advice on tsunami reconstruction. Also in 2006, he was one of three national experts deployed by the State of Louisiana to help residents of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans plan "sustainable reconstruction" after Hurricane Katrina.

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