Robert V. Colangelo

Executive Director
National Brownfield Association

Robert V. Colangelo is an environmental expert and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience. He is guided by the realization that environmental change cannot solely be controlled by legislation and regulatory enforcement; rather, it requires market based economic drivers to be sustainable.

Colangelo is a pioneer in the brownfield industry and an internationally-known expert in the reclamation of unused former industrial sites. As a principal and partner, he has redeveloped more than one million square feet of brownfield property. He has provided expert testimony before Congress numerous times on environmental issues and been an appointee to EPA advisory committees. He is the author of books and numerous publications on the brownfield industry, and co-developed the Rasher-Colangelo formula for estimating value of environmentally impaired properties. Colangelo has consulted to Canada's National Round Table on the Economy and Environment and provided litigation support as an expert witness regarding the impact of environmental hazards on financing and property values.

Colangelo has traveled extensively throughout Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Europe and Canada working on the commercialization of environmental technologies. He has been tapped as an expert interview in media ranging from NBC and NPR to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, and has made many presentations on the subject of brownfields and sustainable development. Colangelo has created several organizations, including Environomics Communications, a specialty communications firm which publishes Brownfield News magazine and produces Green $ense Radio, and the National Brownfield Association, a member-based organization promoting sustainable development in the US and Canada. He holds a Master's Degree in hydrogeology from Northeastern Illinois University and today serves in the Mentor Program at the University of Chicago, Harris School for Public Policy.