William Becker is a Senior Associate at Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G) and a consultant on energy and climate policy at Natural Capitalism Solutions in Colorado. Between 2007 and 2010, he led the the Presidential Climate Action Project, an enterprise that developed nearly 200 recommendations for changes in federal energy and climate policies. He is a former regional director for the U.S. Department of Energy and a national expert on sustainable community development. Among other roles, Bill is a member of the international Climate Change Task Force created and chaired by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Throughout his career, Bill has worked with disaster-affected communities to engage in "sustainable recovery", rebuilding with green designs and technologies. He created or participated in expert teams deployed to New Orleans after Katrina and Thailand after the tsunami. A former journalist who began his career as an Army war correspondent in South Vietnam, Becker is the author of “The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet” published by St. Martin’s Griffin in New York. His career in sustainable energy began in the 1970s when he proposed and helped implement a pioneering project in which a rural Wisconsin village relocated from a floodplain and built the nation's first solar village. Today, that project is recognized as a pioneer in climate mitigation and adaptation.

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