Andrew Shapiro
Andrew Shapiro is a widely recognized leader in sustainability and business strategy whose diverse background as a consultant, journalist, lecturer and attorney enables him to provide the integrated perspective that today’s complex sustainability challenges require.
Andrew founded GreenOrder in 2000 and has developed it into a pioneering firm, which Fortune in 2007 called “the go-to consulting company for green business.” Since 2004, he has worked closely with General Electric’s senior management on the creation and implementation of its award-winning, multibillion-dollar “ecomagination” initiative. Other GreenOrder clients have included Allianz, BP, Citi, Coca-Cola, Duke University, DuPont, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, NBC Universal, Office Depot, Pfizer, Pitney Bowes, Polo Ralph Lauren, Silverstein Properties (WTC redevelopment), Starwood Capital, Tishman Speyer, Vornado Realty and Warner Bros. Studios.
Andrew is also co-founder and chairman of GreenOrder Ventures, which creates and invests in cleantech and green businesses, including GreenYour.com, the Web-based guide to green anything; Class Green Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm; and California Bioenergy, a renewable waste-to-energy company. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of companies, including LivingHomes, Meetup.com and Serious Materials.
Andrew has been profiled in the New York Times business section feature “A Dollars-and-Cents Man with a Green Philosophy,” and he was named one of two dozen “Enviro All-Stars” by Outside magazine and the only strategist on Inc. magazine’s list of “50 entrepreneurs who are changing the way we live today.” He is a member of the Urban Land Institute Trustees’ Advisory Committee on Energy and Climate Change; the advisory committee of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Task Force on Career and Technical Education Innovation; and the board of the Southern Center for Human Rights. Andrew previously served on environmental committees for the NYC2012 Olympic Bid and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and on the founding board of Reboot, a nonprofit organization.
Andrew has written two books that have been published in five languages. His most recent book, The Control Revolution (1999), was an Amazon.com bestseller named one of the 10 most important books of the year by Industry Standard magazine and favorably reviewed in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and other publications. He has hosted an interview program on PBS, appeared on NPR, CNN and The Today Show, and has written for publications ranging from Wired, Spin and The Nation to Foreign Policy, the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is a regular contributor to the “Leading Green” section of Harvard Business School’s online publishing arm.
Andrew previously served as a senior advisor to the Markle Foundation; project director at the Aspen Institute, where he has led seminars since 1998; lecturer at Columbia and Yale law schools; and research fellow at Harvard, NYU and The Century Foundation.
In 1999, he was named by MIT’s Technology Review magazine as one of 100 young innovators who will shape the future of technology. He is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is a member of the New York State bar. His legal experience includes arguing a voting rights case in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.