Roger Platt is the senior vice president of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). In addition, he is a trustee of the Urban Land Institute and the Center for Architecture. Before joining USGBC in 2009, Platt served for 15 years as senior vice president and counsel at the Real Estate Roundtable. Before that, he was a senior land-use associate with the Coblentz law firm in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of San Francisco School of Law.