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Dr. Gary Pivo is a founder of the field of Sustainable and Responsible Property Investing. His work on the subject has recently appeared in Real Estate Issues and International Real Estate Review and was recently referred to as the “latest movement in real estate” by the Wall Street Journal. He is Advisor to the Property Working Group of the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative and head of research for the Responsible Property Investment Project of the Institute for Responsible Investment at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. At the University of Arizona, he holds full professorships in the Urban Planning Degree Program and the School of Natural Resources, and is a Senior Fellow with the Office of Economic Development and Policy Analysis. He teaches courses on the land development process and land use planning near conservation areas.
Previously, Dr. Pivo served as Chair of the Department of Urban Design and Planning, Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Group for the PhD in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. He's also been Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, Dean of the Graduate College, and Director of Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of Arizona.
Professor Pivo has conducted millions of dollars in funded research projects and published extensively on suburban centers, urban form, and sustainable urbanization. His work has been widely cited in scientific journals, text books, professional reports, and governmental studies. His research on office suburbanization and how urban form affects travel behavior is some of the most widely cited work in these areas.
Dr. Pivo's comments on urban planning have been carried by The Economist, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio and dozens of other local and national publications. He has an extensive record of consulting and public service including Special Assistant to the Governor’s Growth Strategy Commission (Washington) and Co-Founder and President of 1000 Friends of Washington. He has addressed meetings sponsored by the United Nations, the Real Estate Roundtable, the US Green Building Council, the National Science Foundation, the National Building Museum, the Urban Land Institute, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Dr. Pivo is an alumnus of the U.S. Presidential Management Internship Program and holds a B.A. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine, a Master’s in Regional Planning from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from U.C., Berkeley.
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