Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday named Matt Petersen the city’s first-ever chief sustainability officer, assigned to oversee the city’s environmental practices.
In a statement, Garcetti called Petersen, who is stepping down as CEO and president of environmental group Global Green USA to take the job, “one of the nation’s leading environmental champions and clean energy advocate.”
Petersen, 46, will be tasked with making the city’s departments greener and neighborhoods healthier, and fulfilling Garcetti’s campaign promise of creating 20,000 new green jobs, the Mayor’s Office said.