Doug Weiss

Doug Weiss joined Civic Counsulting Alliance in January of 2010 as a McKinsey Civic Fellow, focusing on issues around the environment.  In this role, he helped Civic Consulting support the Department of the Environment in its broad strategic sustainability plan, the Chicago Climate Action Plan.

Prior to joining Civic Consulting, Doug worked in the Chicago office of the global strategy consulting firm, McKinsey and Company first as a Business Analyst, and then most recently as one the firm’s Climate Change Fellows.  As a Business Analyst, he worked with the leading governments, non-profits, and governments on key strategy issues vital to their short and long term success.  In topic areas ranging from global brand strategy for an industrial trucks company to private label sourcing for a retailer, he engaged in projects preparing clients for the dynamic global economy.

As a Climate Change Fellow specializing in energy efficiency, Doug worked specifically on the increasingly important issue of climate change and sustainability with the leading forces in the economic and political arenas.  Working with clients to focus on their long-term sustainability, he helped them see climate change not necessarily as a threat, but rather as an opportunity.  During his tenure as a fellow, he also helped to develop a pivotal report on the economics of energy efficiency in the US, Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy, which has served as a key source of information for the sustainability action discussion.

Doug earned his Bachelors with honors in Business Administration and International Relations with a minor in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007.  While there, he helped found a non-profit organization, Students Working in the Environment for Active Transformation (SWEAT), which works to engage students and local communities in active environmental community service.