Rachel Gutter

Rachel Gutter has been appointed president. She succeeds Kamyar Vaghar, who is leaving IWBI after two years in the role.

She joined IWBI as chief product officer in 2016, having previously worked for nearly a decade at the U.S. Green Building Council, where she served as senior vice president of knowledge and was founding director of the Center for Green Schools. She is co-chair of the Garrison Institute’s Board of Directors and serves on the Advisory Board of Paul Hawken’s Drawdown Project to reverse global warming. She is a sought-after speaker and frequent guest lecturer and instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, where she has taught various courses to graduate students and executives and presented as part of lecture series.