Thomas Mueller

President & CEO at Canada Green Building Council

Speaker

Thomas Mueller is a Founding Director of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and is President & CEO of the Council since 2005. As the Chief Executive, he oversees the Council’s national green building strategy, market development and policy initiatives. As part of his work, he provided the impetus for the development of the first zero carbon standards in 2017 to guide decarbonization in the building sector.

As a past Board member of the World Green Building Council (2008-2014), the Green Business Certification Institute, (2009-2018) and, currently, on the WGBC’s global CEO network and the Building Energy Innovators Council (BEIC), he supports the transition toward green, zero carbon and resilient buildings and cities. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as CEO of the Green Business Certification Inc. Canada (GBCI CA) to deliver advanced building performance standards to the industry. Thomas is a well-known advocate for green building design and construction, building retrofit and sustainable real estate development. His focus is on market-based solutions to scale up investment in green building solutions across all segments of the industry. Over the last five years his emphasis has been on advancing climate action and transitioning the building sector to low carbon performance. He works directly with senior levels of government and industry on climate change and sustainability solutions, and is a nationally and internationally recognized authority and speaker on green building.

Thomas has an Undergraduate Degree in Geography, Planning and Applied Ecology from the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany; and holds a Master’s degree in Regional Planning & Resource Development from the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He received his ESG Global Competent Boards Designation in 2021. For his green building work, Thomas has received numerous awards and recognitions. He became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) in 2016; and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo in December 2019.