Jay Golden is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainability and Affiliate of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at at Arizona State University - Tempe. He is also the Director of the National Center of Excellence on SMART (Sustainable Materials & Renewable Technologies) Innovations. Dr. Golden focuses his research on organizational strategies, policies and engineering designs to both adapt and mitigate impacts from climate change and energy.
Golden testifies before Congress Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming July 2008.
Jay Golden received his PhD from Cambridge University in Engineering as part of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) a joint program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge where he resided at Wolfson College. He received his Masters as part of the Cambridge-MIT Institute in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development. Golden also holds an Organizational Mastery of Project Management from Stanford University and has a Bachelor’s degree in management where he attended the University of Phoenix and Arizona State University.
In 2004, Golden was appointed to the United Nations Life Cycle Management Task Force where he authored a section on Urban Sustainable Materials in the upcoming UNEP Guidebook. In 2004, he was appointed to a US EPA workgroup for sustainable materials in urban regions and was named an AT&T Ecology Fellow. In 2006 he was voted onto the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) higher education committee and in 2008 he was appointed to the Board on Urban Environments-American Meterological Socieity.
Dr. Golden serves on the Sustainability Steering Committee to Wal-Mart focused on developing Sustainable Indexing and Sustainable Labeling of all Consumer Products sold in Wal-Mart stores throughout the world.
Dr. Golden serves as Special Advisor to the Executive Management of the Dial Corporation on Sustainable Strategies and has served as Special Advisor to the Mayor of Phoenix on Sustainable Technologies. He was appointed to the City of Scottsdale Environmental Quality Advisory Board. Golden helped found and was advisor for the ASU chapter of Engineers without Borders, an international engineering humanitarian organization.
Working with partners at Duke University, University of Michigan,MIT and Cornell University, Dr. Golden developed the Sustainable Energy Fellowship (www.TeachEnergy.org), a summer program to work with outstanding students from across the country on the policies, sciences and technologies to improve our use of energy. In 2006 he was voted onto the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) higher education committee.