Neil Chambers

Biography

Neil Chambers is the CEO and President of Chambers Design, Inc. The design studio focuses on sustainable and ecological design with projects ranging from city planning to architecture to interiors to products. Before he started his own office, Neil worked to apply sustainable practices to land planning, solar panel design, infrastructure and architectural forms. Neil has a strong desire to develop projects that combined the environment, process, usability and aesthetics.

Neil has been involved with shaping environmental policy by writing and advising elected officials including the New York City Council, New York City Comptroller's Office and New York State Comptroller's Office. He is an adjunct professor at New York University teaching green design and environmental policy in the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies. He engages his students with a method that simulates a real-world experience of the subject matter. He is driven to create tension for students to ask and struggle with the philosophy and the practicality behind the sustainable industry.

Neil is a founder of Green Ground Zero and the primary force in establishing the organization's international presence. As the director of GGZ, Neil has given talks at the First Summit of The Network of Regional Governments for Tsunami Redevelopment in Lake Toba, Indonesia, United Nations World Urban Forum in Barcelona, Spain, the World Congress of Architecture and USGBC Conference in Pittsburgh and many other events around the United States. He is the host of Built Green TV, television/webcast series that brings experts within the green industries to have an in-depth, spirited conversation about the past, present and future of environmental subjects. Neil studied architecture at Clemson University and studio arts at Maryland Institute, College of Art.

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