Warren Karlenzig, Founder & CEO, Common Current
Warren is founder and CEO of the California-based sustainability consultancy Common Current, and a Kanal Consulting partner. He has worked over 20 years with governments and corporations, developing strategic, financial and metrics-based operational sustainability capabilities. Warren’s clients have included the White House Office of Science and Technology; the US Department of State; US Environmental Protection Agency; US Department of Energy; Research Triangle Institute; the Asian Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability; and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Warren has led strategic corporate engagements with General Electric, Dow Brands, Saab, IDEO, Dean Foods, Chevron and numerous others. He is author and architect of the first and largest U.S. city sustainability benchmarking study, How Green is Your City? The SustainLane US City Rankings (New Society Publishers, 2007). He contributed a chapter in Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the 21st Century (Penn Press/ Wharton School of Business, 2008). Warren was co-author of the City of San Francisco’s official 1997 Sustainability Plan’s “Economy and Economic Development” section and is on the boards of the Global Climate Center, and the Korea Green Foundation. He has appeared in international media including People’s Daily (China), the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and CNBC. A Fellow at the Post Carbon Institute, he holds an undergraduate degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s from Naropa University in Boulder, CO.
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