Thomas Mueller

President & CEO at Canada Green Building Council

Speaker

Thomas Mueller has been an innovator and advocate for green buildings for 30 years. He 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 leads the Council’s national green building strategy, industry engagement and partnerships. Under his leadership, the Council developed the first zero carbon standards in the world to guide decarbonization in buildings. He is a past Board member of the World Green Building Council (2008-2014) and the global Green Business Certification Institute (2009-2018). As part of the WGBC’s CEO network and the R-LABS Industry Issue + Transformation Council, he supports business-driven solutions for green, zero carbon and resilient buildings. From 2018 to 2021, he served as CEO, Green Business Certification Inc. Canada to deliver advanced building standards to the industry. Thomas is a well-known advocate and supporter of sustainability and decarbonization in the building industry. His focus is on scaling up investment in green building retrofits and construction, technology solutions, workforce capacity and skills in the low carbon economy. He works with senior levels of government and industry on climate change policy 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 recognition. 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.