Shelley Metzenbaum
Visiting Professor
University of Maryland
Biography
Shelley Metzenbaum came to the School from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she was appointed Associate Administrator for Regional Operations and State/Local Relations by President Clinton. Prior to her work at EPA, Metzenbaum served as Undersecretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. In this position, she initiated several environmental permit reform projects and the reform of the state's Superfund program. She also organized an environmental business promotion project that led to the creation of the Massachusetts (and now the New England) Environmental Business Council. Her other experience includes serving as Director of Capital Budgeting for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, working with a private firm to place welfare recipients in private sector jobs, and running the City of Boston's Washington office. Her writing on investing pension funds for social objectives, Investing in Ourselves (1979), was widely used in the early 1980s as a handbook on practical ways to invest public assets for higher social return. At SPA, Metzenbaum teaches courses on environmental management and finance.