Michael B. Taylor, President, Vita Nuova LLC

Mr. Taylor is a leading strategist in implementing redevelopment at brownfields, RCRA, and Superfund sites. He is an expert in public-private partnerships for redevelopment as well as in developing strategies to get highly-encumbered properties back to the market. He works in some of the toughest areas of the country, including small rural areas, inner city environmental justice neighborhoods, and some of the most contaminated sites in the country. Mr. Taylor chaired the ASTM task group for the National Standard on Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment. He has trained over 800 state and federal regulators in real estate and redevelopment of contaminated properties and contributed to national brownfields and superfund redevelopment policy. He was a graduate Rockefeller fellow at Yale University, where he studied Environmental Science, Public Policy and Ethics. He graduated Cum Laude in Urban Planning and Economics from Roanoke College. He recently co-taught a course in Land Use and Environmental Decisionmaking at Columbia School of Law.