Mark Lichtenstein has over 25 years of leadership, environmental stewardship, sustainability, public administration, and conflict management experience in local government, business, and non-profits.  He is Director of Operations and Outreach for the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems, is a Faculty Associate with Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and is Director of the EPA'S Environmental Finance Center at Syracuse.  At the Maxwell School, he also administered the Executive Master in Public Administration program.  While at Syracuse he co-founded the SU/SUNY ESF University Sustainability Action Coalition.

Before heading to Syracuse, Mark led Oswego County's nationally award-winning Recycling and Solid Waste Management Program.  He served multiple terms as President of the Washington, DC based National Recycling Coalition, Inc., and helped establish and traded the first recyclables on the Chicago Board of Trade.  He has lectured in Belgium, Iceland, India and Spain.  Locally, he completed two terms as President of the Mexico Central School Board of Education, and helped found the Ontario Dune Coalition.