Michael joined Scheller College in 2016 as the Managing Director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business where he co-leads strategic direction of the Center (with the faculty director) and oversees day-to-day management of Center activities that focus on integrating sustainability into business education and practice through faculty research, corporate engagement, and student (co)curricular courses and initiatives. Michael also teaches MBA, executive education, and undergraduate business classes in sustainability. Michael served as a co-PI on research that focused on energy burden in the Greater Atlanta region and is currently a co-PI for Drawdown Georgia and its beyond carbon work. Michael recently served as a co-lead for one of the working groups engaged in the development of a new GT-wide strategic plan is currently serving on the Scheller College of Business Diversity and Inclusion Council. Prior to joining Scheller, Michael spent over twenty five years working at the intersection of international business, sustainability, and risk management including serving in leadership roles at Acorn International LLC and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). In these roles, he advised a broad range of companies on local content, social impact, risk management, community engagement, reporting, and human rights initiatives. Michael also has extensive commercial experience through his work in industry, as a consultant, and within government. Michael’s career spans assignments in the US and a broad range of international locations including two overseas residential assignments in Central Asia. Michael has an MBA from Rice University, an MIA in international political economy from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a B.A. from Trinity College in Russian Area Studies.
