Mathy Stanislaus is Vice Provost and Executive Director, The Environmental Collaboratory at Drexel University. At this moment of environmental and climate crises, The Environmental Collaboratory was established to transform the historic asymmetric power dynamics by co-funding, co-designing, and co-implementing replicable, transdisciplinary on-the-ground solutions with community partners that drive systemic change and align climate transition and environmental justice with the needs of communities. Critically, The Environmental Collaboratory brings the expertise of R1 designated Doctoral University to provide the independent peer reviewed analysis and data to foster trust in solutions in areas such as environmental sciences, engineering, data, law, health care, public health, policy, social sciences, and humanities.

Mr. Stanislaus joined Drexel from the Global Battery Alliance, a multi-stakeholder initiative established at the World Economic Forum. There, he served as its first interim director and policy director with a focus on establishing a global transparent data governance system to scale up electric mobility and clean energy in alignment with circular economy, human rights and community development. He also served as senior advisor to the Platform for Circular Economy at the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Stanislaus was nominated by President Obama and served for eight years as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Among his other achievements at the USEPA was advancing President Obama’s Climate Action Plan by leading the U.S. government’s first adaptation plans to address emergency preparedness, and protect Superfund sites and hazardous waste facilities from the consequences of more intense, frequent storms and sea-level rise. Stanislaus led his office’s development of the RE-Powering America’s Land initiative to foster renewable energy development on contaminated lands .

During this Administration, he led USEPA engagement with White House National Economic Council, the Department of Commerce and Economic Development Administration, to integrate environmental justice, climate and sustainability opportunities into the Administration’s community development programs. He led the delivery of technical assistance programs to enable disadvantaged communities to secure federal funding. He was recognized by IBM Center for Business in Government for designing and leading President Obama’s Memorandum on Open Government through the community engagement plan as one of leading actions to foster inclusion of “full range of demographic, income, and geographic groups” impacted by EPA programs and policies.

Mathy was the founding co-director of the New Partners for Community Revitalization in New York — an organization dedicated to strengthening low-income communities and communities of color by linking technical assistance, land use planning and finance. He is a former chair long-term member of the Board of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance.