Ryan Snow is a sustainability professional and educator with over two decades of leadership in the green building industry. As Regional Director, U.S. Market Transformation & Development with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Snow leads a team to grow sustainability, health, resilience, and equity in buildings and communities through LEED. He is responsible for a successful market transformation and growth strategy and heads a team delivering local programming, education, stakeholder engagement, and leadership celebration in local markets.
Snow has served several nonprofit organizations, including the Interfaith Power & Light, Conference for Catholic Facility Managers, American Institute of Constructors, Urban Land Institute, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Cool Space Locator. He was adjunct faculty in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at Chatham University, where he developed a sustainability curriculum and chaired a thesis committee. He holds an M.S. in Sustainable Systems from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Science and Technology Studies from Michigan State University's Lyman Briggs School. He has completed graduate-level coursework in real estate development at Drexel University. Snow has been a LEED Accredited Professional since 2003 and maintains the LEED AP Building Design + Construction specialty.