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. The focus is on developing organizational strategies, policies and a new generation of materials and technologies to both adapt and mitigate impacts from climate and energy.

 Golden testifies before Congress Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming July 2008.

Golden teaches sustainable strategy, climate-energy and technology courses in the School of Sustainability and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering (Mechanical and Aerospace and the Civil and Environmental Engineering departments).

He also is co-director of the Sustainable Energy Fellowship along with colleagues Dr. Lincoln Pratson of Duke University, Dr. Andy Hoffman of the University of Michigan and Dr. Jeffery Tester of MIT.

Jay Golden received his PhD from Cambridge University in Engineering for Sustainable Development 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 a professional Mastery of Project Management from Stanford University and has a Bachelor’s degree in management.

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. 

Additionally, Dr. Golden consults to industry and government on sustainability programs with a primary focus on organizational strategies and technologies for climate change and energy.